Monthly
adjectiveHappening or produced once every month.
How to spell monthly
7 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce monthly
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does monthly mean?
- adjectiveHappening or produced once every month.
- adverbAt intervals of one month; once each month.
Monthly in a sentence
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adjective
The monthly rent is due on the first of each month.
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adverb
The subscription is billed monthly to your card.
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adjective
She reviews the monthly budget before paying the bills.
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adverb
The team meets monthly to discuss progress.
Where does monthly come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
This word joins the noun 'month' to the suffix '-ly', both of which descend from Old English. The noun comes from the Old English 'monath', which was closely tied to 'mona', meaning 'moon', because the earliest months were measured by the cycles of the moon. The suffix '-ly' derives from Old English '-lic', literally meaning 'having the form or body of', and when attached to a unit of time it came to mean 'happening at every such interval'. By the time 'monthly' appears in the 1500s, it carried both the adjective sense (a monthly payment) and the adverb sense (paid monthly). The lingering link between 'month' and 'moon' is a useful reminder that the word keeps its silent-feeling 'n' and 'th' cluster from that older 'monath' spelling.
How the word is built
- month (from Old English monath: a lunar period)
- -ly (adjective/adverb suffix meaning 'recurring at intervals of')
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