monitor

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English

A carboxyhemoglobin saturation monitor
A CRT computer monitor
A monitor lizard

Alternative forms

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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. (British, archaic) 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!
  7. (nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
  8. (archaic) An ironclad.
  9. A monitor lizard.
  10. (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
    • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      You need not be a monitor to the king.
  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 the several tools successively into position.
  12. A monitor nozzle.

Derived terms

Translations

ironclad — see ironclad
monitor lizard — see monitor lizard
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See also

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
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    • 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.

Synonyms

Translations

Further reading

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin monitōrem, accusative of monitor (“warner”).

Noun

monitor m (plural monitors)

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

Czech

Noun

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  1. monitor (computer display)

Declension

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Dutch

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Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Derived terms

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

  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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor.

Noun

monitor m (uncountable)

  1. monitor (apparatus)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Latin moneō [from Proto-Italic *moneō, from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”)] + -tor. Compare Ancient Greek Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”) and Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”).

Pronunciation

Noun

monitor m (genitive monitōris); third declension

  1. counselor, preceptor
  2. prompter

Declension

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

  • Catalan: monitor
  • English: monitor
  • Portuguese: monitor
  • Russian: монито́р (monitór)
  • Spanish: monitor

References

  • “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

Polish

Noun

monitor m inan

  1. (computing) monitor (display device)

Declension

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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin monitōre.

Noun

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

Etymology 2

From English monitor.

Noun

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

  1. (computing) monitor (computer display)
Synonyms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English monitor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mònitor m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀нитор)

  1. monitor (computing, etc.)

Declension

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

Etymology

From Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moniˈtoɾ/ [mo.niˈt̪oɾ]

Noun

monitor m (plural monitores)

  1. monitor (electronic device)
    Synonym: pantalla

Noun

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

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

Further reading

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