Monogamises

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Brings a person into a state of having only one spouse or partner at a time, restricting them to a single lifelong relationship
2. Causes someone to commit to a single exclusive sexual and romantic partner rather than having several at once
3. Confines a person to one mate, ending a practice of multiple partners and establishing an exclusive pairing

Etymology: "Monogamises" is the third-person singular present of "monogamise," the British spelling of "monogamize," meaning to make monogamous or to bind someone to a single partner. It is formed from "monogamy" plus the verb-forming suffix "-ize" (spelled "-ise" in British English), and "monogamy" itself comes from Late Latin "monogamia," borrowed from Greek "monogamia," from "monos" ("single, alone") and "gamos" ("marriage"). The Greek sense of "one marriage" was set against the practice of having several spouses, so the root idea is simply a single union. The verb inherits that Greek core through the noun. Its use as a verb is a later extension, as English speakers turned "monogamy" into an action: to monogamize a person or a society is to enforce or encourage a single-partner arrangement.