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monophthongise

monophthongise is the alternative spelling of monophthongize.

Meaning of monophthongize

Verb

monophthongize (third-person singular simple present monophthongizes, present participle monophthongizing, simple past and past participle monophthongized)

  1. (transitive) To change to a monophthong (as by removing a vowel).
    • Inherited -au- was monophthongized to -a- in Sardinian. These forms must therefore go back to […] *aCurri, with an elided consonant.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 132
  2. (intransitive) To become a monophthong.

Forms of monophthongise

third-person singular presentmonophthongises
present participlemonophthongising
past participlemonophthongised
pastmonophthongised

Origin of monophthongise

From monophthong + -ise.

Questions about monophthongise

What is monophthongise the alternative spelling of?
Monophthongise is the alternative spelling of monophthongize.

Words near monophthongise in the dictionary

  1. monophthongality
  2. monophthongally
  3. monophthongic
  4. monophthongisation
  5. monophthongisations
  6. monophthongise
  7. monophthongised
  8. monophthongises
  9. monophthongising
  10. monophthongization
  11. monophthongizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monophthongise (page history and authors); monophthongize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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