monitor

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See also: Monitor and monitör

English[edit]

A monitor lizard
A CRT computer monitor
HMS Marshal Ney, a monitor (warship)
A blood oxygen saturation monitor

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

monitor (plural monitors)

  1. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
    The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
    • 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar:
      And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
      A monitor, though still;
      Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
      Beyond the preacher's skill.
  2. A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
  3. (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
    The information flashed up on the monitor.
  4. A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
  5. (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
    a machine code monitor
  6. (computing, obsolete) The command line interface of an operating system.
  7. (Hong Kong, Singapore, archaic in British) A student leader in a class.
    • 1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europa's School:
      So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors, who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order.
    • 1881, Talbot Baines Reed, chapter X, in The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's:
      But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors!
    • (Can we date this quote?), Pearl Poon, Class Monitor Election‎[1], Hong Kong ICAC Comics:
      He learned that a monitor should assist the teachers in distributing worksheets, maintaining class discipline, helping classmates in need and so on.
  8. (nautical) A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat. [from 1862]
  9. A monitor lizard.
  10. A bus monitor.
  11. (engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring several tools successively into position.
  12. A monitor nozzle.
  13. (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
    • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
      You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king.
    • 1873, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 119:
      There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north […]
  14. (archaic) An ironclad.

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Translations[edit]

ironclad — see ironclad
monitor lizard — see monitor lizard
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Verb[edit]

monitor (third-person singular simple present monitors, present participle monitoring, simple past and past participle monitored)

  1. (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
    • 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide‎[2], World Health Organization, page 134:
      Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
    • 1997, Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers‎[3], volumes 23-373, page 239:
      During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO2, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
    • 2002, Mark Baker, Garry Smith, GridRM: A Resource Monitoring Architecture for the Grid, in Manish Parashar (editor), Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop, Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268,
      A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance monitoring, analysis, prediction and tuning.

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin monitōrem (“warner”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

monitor m (plural monitors)

  1. monitor, someone who watches
  2. teacher, educator
    Synonym: educador
  3. (computing) monitor, display screen
  4. (nautical) monitor (type of warship)

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Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

monitor m inan

  1. monitor (computer display)

Declension[edit]

Declension of monitor (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative monitor monitory
genitive monitoru monitorů
dative monitoru monitorům
accusative monitor monitory
vocative monitore monitory
locative monitoru monitorech
instrumental monitorem monitory

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Dutch[edit]

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmoː.niˌtɔr/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor

Noun[edit]

monitor m (plural monitors or monitoren, diminutive monitortje n)

  1. screen, display
  2. (audio) speaker boxes for monitoring sound, on stage directed at musicians or aimed at a sound engineer in a studio
  3. (historical) monitor (low-lying ironclad)
  4. (historical) monitor (small coastal warship specialised in shore bombardment)

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French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

monitor m (plural monitors)

  1. (nautical, military) monitor (warship)

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈmonitor]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor
  • Rhymes: -or

Noun[edit]

monitor (plural monitorok)

  1. (computer hardware) monitor (a device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer)

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative monitor monitorok
accusative monitort monitorokat
dative monitornak monitoroknak
instrumental monitorral monitorokkal
causal-final monitorért monitorokért
translative monitorrá monitorokká
terminative monitorig monitorokig
essive-formal monitorként monitorokként
essive-modal — —
inessive monitorban monitorokban
superessive monitoron monitorokon
adessive monitornál monitoroknál
illative monitorba monitorokba
sublative monitorra monitorokra
allative monitorhoz monitorokhoz
elative monitorból monitorokból
delative monitorról monitorokról
ablative monitortól monitoroktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		monitoré monitoroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		monitoréi monitorokéi
Possessive forms of monitor
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. monitorom monitoraim, monitorjaim
2nd person sing. monitorod monitoraid, monitorjaid
3rd person sing. monitora, monitorja monitorai, monitorjai
1st person plural monitorunk monitoraink, monitorjaink
2nd person plural monitorotok monitoraitok, monitorjaitok
3rd person plural monitoruk, monitorjuk monitoraik, monitorjaik

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

  • monitor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English monitor.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

monitor m (invariable)

  1. monitor (apparatus)

References[edit]

  1. ^ monitor in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From moneō +‎ -tor. Compare Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”) and Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

monitor m (genitive monitōris); third declension

  1. counselor, preceptor
  2. prompter, warner

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative monitor monitōrēs
Genitive monitōris monitōrum
Dative monitōrī monitōribus
Accusative monitōrem monitōrēs
Ablative monitōre monitōribus
Vocative monitor monitōrēs

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • “monitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “monitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Malay[edit]

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms

Etymology[edit]

From English monitor, from Latin monitor.

Noun[edit]

monitor (Jawi spelling مونيتور, plural monitor-monitor, informal 1st possessive monitorku, 2nd possessive monitormu, 3rd possessive monitornya)

  1. (computing) monitor (computer display)
    • 2015 August 24, Nurhayati Abllah, “Monitor lengkung Acer begitu 'trendy' [The Acer curved monitor is so 'trendy']”, in Berita Harian‎[4]:
      Luaran monitor model juga kelihatan lebih premium dan menarik dengan panel belakang berkilat dengan kemasan aluminium futuristik sebagai penegak.
      The exterior of the monitor model also appears more premium and attractive, featuring a glossy back panel with futuristic aluminum casing as a stand.

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Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
monitor sense 1
monitor sense 3

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin monitor.

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Noun[edit]

monitor m inan (related adjective monitorowy)

  2. (computer hardware) monitor, screen (output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form)
    Hypernym: urządzenie
  3. official magazine or news program having the word “monitor” in the title in which resolutions and orders of state authorities are published
    Hypernym: czasopismo
  5. (military) monitor (one of a class of relatively small armored warships with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat)
    Hypernym: okręt

Declension[edit]

Declension of monitor
singular plural
nominative monitor monitory
genitive monitora monitorów
dative monitorowi monitorom
accusative monitor monitory
instrumental monitorem monitorami
locative monitorze monitorach
vocative monitorze monitory

Derived terms[edit]

verbs

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adjectives
nouns

Further reading[edit]

  • monitor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • monitor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • monitor in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

 
 

  • Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor

Etymology 1[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin monitōrem.

Noun[edit]

monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)

  1. monitor (someone who watches over something)
  2. monitor lizard (lizard of the genus Varanus)
    Synonyms: varano, lagarto-monitor

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English monitor.

Noun[edit]

monitor m (plural monitores)

  1. (computing) monitor (computer display)
    Synonyms: ecrã, (Brazil) tela

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French monitor.

Noun[edit]

monitor n (plural monitoare)

  1. monitor

Declension[edit]

Declension of monitor
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) monitor monitorul (niște) monitoare monitoarele
genitive/dative (unui) monitor monitorului (unor) monitoare monitoarelor
vocative monitorule monitoarelor

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English monitor.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mǒnitor/
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor

Noun[edit]

mònitor m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀нитор)

  1. monitor (computing, etc.)

Declension[edit]

Declension of monitor
singular plural
nominative monitor monitori
genitive monitora monitora
dative monitoru monitorima
accusative monitor monitore
vocative monitoru / monitore monitori
locative monitoru monitorima
instrumental monitorom monitorima

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin monitor.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /moniˈtoɾ/ [mo.niˈt̪oɾ]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: mo‧ni‧tor

Noun[edit]

monitor m (plural monitores)

  1. monitor (electronic device)
    Synonym: pantalla

Noun[edit]

monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)

  1. instructor, monitor
  2. coach, trainer
    Synonym: entrenador

Further reading[edit]

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