monitor

monitor

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English

Alternative forms

  • monitour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/
  • (lot–cloth split, US) IPA(key): /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tɚ/, /ˈmɔn.ə.tɚ/
  • (cot–caught merger, General American, dialects of Canada) IPA(key): /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/, [ˈmɑ.nɪ.ɾɚ], /ˈmɑ.nə.tɚ/, [ˈmɑ.nə.ɾɚ]
  • (cot–caught merger, Canada, dialects of the US) IPA(key): /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tɚ/, [ˈmɒn.ɪ.ɾɚ]
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tə/, [ˈmɔn.ɪ.ɾə], /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/, [ˈmɒn.ɪ.ɾə]

Noun

monitor (plural monitors)

  1. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
  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.
  4. A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
  5. (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
  6. (computing, obsolete) The command line interface of an operating system.
  7. (Hong Kong, Singapore, archaic in British) A student leader in a class.
  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 (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
  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.
  14. (archaic) An ironclad.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Thai: มอนิเตอร์ (mɔɔ-ní-dtəə)

Translations

See also

  • display
  • screen
  • VDU

Verb

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

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

  • oversee, supervise, track

Translations

Further reading

  • “monitor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “monitor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • montoir, tromino

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monitōrem (“warner”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [mu.niˈto]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [mo.niˈto]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [mo.niˈtoɾ]

Noun

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)

Derived terms

  • monitorar

Further reading

  • “monitor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “monitor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “monitor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “monitor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmonɪtor]

Noun

monitor m inan

  1. monitor (computer display)

Declension

Related terms

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmoː.niˌtɔr/
  • 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

  • rammonitor

French

Pronunciation

Noun

monitor m (plural monitors)

  1. (nautical, military) monitor (warship)

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

References

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /moˈnitor/ [moˈni.t̪ɔr]
  • Rhymes: -itor
  • Syllabification: mo‧ni‧tor

Noun

monitor (plural monitor-monitor)

  1. monitor
    1. someone who watches over something
      Synonym: (more common) pemantau
    2. (computing) computer display
    3. a device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something
      1. (medicine) vital signs monitor
    4. (engineering) a tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret
      1. monitor nozzle
  2. monitoring; surveillance or continuous or regular observation
    Synonyms: pemantauan, pemonitoran, (colloquial) monitoring

Verb

monitor

  1. to monitor; basic/imperative/informal of memonitor
    Synonym: pantau

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “monitor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ni.tor/
  • Rhymes: -ɔnitor
  • Hyphenation: mò‧ni‧tor

Noun

monitor m (invariable)

  1. monitor (apparatus)

References

Anagrams

  • rimonto, rimontò

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɔ.nɪ.tɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɔː.ni.t̪or]

Noun

monitor m (genitive monitōris); third declension

  1. counselor, preceptor
  2. prompter, warner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Catalan: monitor
  • English: monitor
  • German: Monitor
  • Italian: monitore
  • Portuguese: monitor
  • Russian: монито́р (monitór)
  • Spanish: monitor
  • Translingual: 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

Malay

Etymology

From English monitor, from Latin monitor.

Noun

monitor (Jawi spelling مونيتور, plural monitor-monitor)

  1. (computing) monitor (computer display)

Synonyms

  • pengawas

Further reading

  • “monitor” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔˈɲi.tɔr/
  • Rhymes: -itɔr
  • Syllabification: mo‧ni‧tor
  • Homophone: Monitor

Noun

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin monitōrem.

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: varano, lagarto-monitor

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English monitor.

Noun

monitor m (plural monitores)

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French monitor.

Noun

monitor n (plural monitoare)

  1. monitor

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mònitor m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀нитор)

  1. monitor (computing, etc.)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

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

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

  • “monitor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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