monologue

See also: monologué

English

Alternative forms

• monolog (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mender.

Proto-Hellenic *mónwos

Byzantine Greek μόνος (mónos)

Byzantine Greek μονο- (mono-)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Byzantine Greek λόγος (lógos)

Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos)der.

Middle French monologueder.

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Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.

English mono-

English -logue

English monologue

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos). By surface analysis, mono- +‎ -logue.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈmɑnəˌlɑɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

monologue (plural monologues)

1. (drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.

   Synonym: soliloquy

2. (comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
3. A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.

   Coordinate term: dialogue

Derived terms

• internal monologue, interior monologue
• monologic
• monological
• monologically
• monologual
• monologuist
• monologuize
• pianologue
• travelogue

Translations

long speech by one person

• Afrikaans: alleenspraak (af), monoloog
• Albanian: monolog (sq) m
• Arabic: مُونُولُوج m (mūnūlūg), حَدِيث النَّفْس m (ḥadīṯ an-nafs)
• Armenian: մենախոսություն (hy) (menaxosutʻyun), մոնոլոգ (hy) (monolog)
• Bashkir: монолог (monolog)
• Belarusian: манало́г m (manalóh), маналёг m (manaljóh)
• Bulgarian: моноло́г (bg) m (monológ)
• Catalan: monòleg m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獨白 / 独白 (zh) (dúbái)

• Czech: monolog (cs) m
• Danish: monolog c
• Dutch: monoloog (nl) m, alleenspraak (nl) f
• Estonian: monoloog
• Finnish: monologi (fi), yksinpuhelu
• French: monologue (fr) m
• Galician: monólogo m
• Georgian: მონოლოგი (monologi)
• German: Monolog (de) m, Selbstgespräch (de) n
• Greek: μονόλογος (el) m (monólogos)
• Hebrew: מוֹנוֹלוֹג (he) m (monológ)
• Hindi: एकालाप m (ekālāp), आत्मभाषण m (ātmabhāṣaṇ)
• Hungarian: monológ (hu)
• Indonesian: monolog (id), swacakap
• Italian: monologo (it) m
• Japanese: 独白 (ja) (どくはく, dokuhaku), 独話 (どくわ, dokuwa), モノローグ (ja) (monorōgu)
• Kazakh: монолог (monolog)
• Korean: 독백(獨白) (ko) (dokbaek), 모놀로그 (monollogeu)
• Kyrgyz: монолог (monolog)
• Latvian: monologs m
• Lithuanian: monologas (lt) m
• Macedonian: монолог m (monolog)
• Māori: kupu whaiaroaro, whaikī tōtahi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: monolog m

  Nynorsk: monolog m

• Persian: تک‌گویی (fa) (tak-gui), مونولوگ (monolôg)
• Polish: monolog (pl) m
• Portuguese: monólogo (pt) m
• Romanian: monolog (ro) n
• Russian: моноло́г (ru) m (monológ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: моно̀лог m

  Latin: monòlog (sh) m

• Slovak: monológ m
• Slovene: samogovor m, monolog m
• Spanish: monólogo (es) m
• Swedish: monolog (sv) c
• Tagalog: sariusap
• Thai: บทพูดเดี่ยว
• Turkish: monolog (tr)
• Ukrainian: моноло́г m (monolóh)
• Vietnamese: độc ngữ (獨語)
• Yiddish: מאָנאָלאָג m (monolog)

comedy: long series of stories and jokes

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: monologi (fi), yksinpuhelu
• Indonesian: monolog (id), komika
• Japanese: 漫談 (ja) (mandan) (Japanese modernism), 落語 (ja) (rakugo) (Japanese tradition)
• Polish: monolog (pl) m
• Portuguese: monólogo (pt) m
• Russian: моноло́г (ru) m (monológ)

monopolizing utterance

• Afrikaans: monoloog
• Bulgarian: монолог (bg) m (monolog)
• Catalan: monòleg m
• Finnish: monologi (fi), yksinpuhelu
• Māori: kupu whaiaroaro
• Polish: monolog (pl) m
• Portuguese: monólogo (pt) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} monologue (fr) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} monologo (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} yekbêjî (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} monolog (ku) f

Verb

monologue (third-person singular simple present monologues, present participle monologuing, simple past and past participle monologued)

1. To deliver a monologue.

   Synonym: monologize

   • 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices:

     Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: водя монолог (vodja monolog)
• Spanish: monologar (es)

French

Etymology

Modeled on dialogue, from Middle French monologue, from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.nɔ.lɔɡ/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

monologue m (plural monologues)

1. monologue

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: monoloq
• → Dutch: monoloog
  • Afrikaans: monoloog
• → German: Monolog
• → Italian: monologo
• → Macedonian: монолог (monolog)
• → Russian: моноло́г (monológ)
  • → Kazakh: монолог (monolog)
• → Portuguese: monólogo
• → Romanian: monolog
• → Spanish: monólogo
• → Turkish: monolog
• → Ukrainian: моноло́г (monolóh)

Verb

monologue

1. inflection of monologuer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “monologue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle French

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).

Noun

monologue m (plural monologues)

1. soliloquy; monologue

Descendants

• French: monologue
  • → Azerbaijani: monoloq
  • → Dutch: monoloog
    • Afrikaans: monoloog
  • → German: Monolog
  • → Italian: monologo
  • → Macedonian: монолог (monolog)
  • → Russian: моноло́г (monológ)
    • → Kazakh: монолог (monolog)
  • → Portuguese: monólogo
  • → Romanian: monolog
  • → Spanish: monólogo
  • → Turkish: monolog
  • → Ukrainian: моноло́г (monolóh)
• → English: monologue

Portuguese

Verb

monologue

1. inflection of monologar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

monologue

1. inflection of monologar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative