mononom

Noun

mononom (plural mononoms)

1. A word composed of a single stem that cannot be broken down into constituent morphs.
   • It a meaning is expressed in a particular language like English with the help of a binom, newspaper, and in another particular language like German by a mononom Zeitung, the heteronomic morphology is usually more voluminous (9 phongrams against 7).2013, P. Kümmel, Formalization of Natural Languages, →ISBN
   • Sino-Japanese mononoms are all short, since all Sino-Japanese morphs are one or two moras.2015, Haruo Kubozono, Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology, →ISBN
2. Synonym of mononym.
   • "I was dining one day with Burns," said Campbell, "who, like Dr. Johnson and other celebrities, had his Bozzy worshipper, a friend who was always in his company. I have forgotten his name. Burns left the room for a moment, and passing the bottle to his friend, I proposed to drink the health of Mr....1852, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Prose Works of N.P. Willis, page 661

   Synonyms:

   mononym