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English

Etymology

From Latin admonit?rium (“admonition, reminder”)

Adjective

admonitory (comparative more admonitory, superlative most admonitory)

1. Of or pertaining to an admonition; serving to reprove, warn or advise.
   • 1604, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, London: John Windet, Book 1, p. 64,^[1]

     Wherefore the naturall measure wherby to iudge our doings, is the sentence of reason, determining and setting downe what is good to be done. Which sentence is either mandatory, shewing what must be done; or else permissiue, declaring onely what may be done; or thirdly admonitorie, opening what is the most conuenient for vs to doe.

   • 1775, Elizabeth Griffith, The Morality of Shakespeare’s Drama Illustrated, London: T. Cadell, A General Postscript, pp. 526-527,^[2]

     Mere descriptions of virtue or vice do not strike us, so strongly, as the visible representations of them. Richard the Third’s dream, Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in her sleep, the Dagger Scene in the same Play, Cardinal Beaufort’s last moments, with many other passages in our Author, of the same admonitory kind, avail us more than whole volumes of Tully’s Offices, or Seneca’s Morals.

   • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 15,^[3]

     […] Mr. Dick […] was so low-spirited at the prospect of our separation, and played so ill in consequence, that my aunt, after giving him several admonitory raps on the knuckles with her dice-box, shut up the board, and declined to play with him any more.

   • 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, London: Victor Gollancz, 1975, “II. A Full Peal of Grandsire Tripes,” The Second Part,^[4]

     From it [the pew], Mrs. Venables was able […] to keep an admonitory eye on the school children who occupied the north aisle, and to frown at those who turned round to stare or make faces.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• monitour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?n?t?/

Noun

monitor (plural monitors)

1. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
   • 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.

4. A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
5. (computing) A program for viewing and editing.

6. (Britain, archaic) A student leader in a class.
7. (nautical) 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), 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.
    • 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 […]

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

Related terms

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• monitor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• montoir, tromino

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin monit?rem, 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

• (educator): educador

Derived terms

• monitorar

Further reading

• “monitor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “monitor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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

Noun

monitor m

1. monitor (computer display)

Declension

Related terms

• monitorovat

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?.ni?t?r/
• 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

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?monitor]
• 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 Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor.

Noun

monitor m (invariable)

1. monitor (apparatus)

Anagrams

• rimonto, rimontò

Latin

Etymology

From Latin mone? [from Proto-Italic *mone?, from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”)] + -tor. Compare Ancient Greek Ancient Greek ?????? (Mént?r, “Mentor”) and Sanskrit ????? (mant?, “advisor, counselor”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mo.ni.tor/, [?m?n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mo.ni.tor/, [?m??nit??r]

Noun

monitor m (genitive monit?ris); third declension

1. counselor, preceptor
2. prompter, warner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: monitor
• English: monitor
• Portuguese: monitor
• Russian: ???????? (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

Derived terms

• monitorowy

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin monit?re.

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

From English monitor.

Noun

monitor m (plural monitores)

1. (computing) monitor (computer display)

   Synonyms: ecrã, tela

Romanian

Etymology

From French monitor.

Noun

monitor n (plural monitoare)

1. monitor

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English monitor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?nitor/
• Hyphenation: mo?ni?tor

Noun

mònitor m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. monitor (computing, etc.)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moni?to?/, [mo.ni?t?o?]

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.