different between monition vs monitor

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman monicion, Middle French monicion, and their source, Latin moniti? (“warning, admonition”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??n??n?/

Noun

monition (plural monitions)

1. A caution or warning. [from 14th c.]
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 191-192:

     I heard something of it, however, and, young as I was, could not help wondering how men who carried the worst passions of life into their retreat, could imagine that retreat was a refuge from the erosions of their evil tempers, the monitions of conscience, and the accusations of God.

   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:

     He cherished the usual wise monitions, such as that one was not to make a fool of one's self and that one should not carry on one's technical experiments in public.

2. A legal notification of something. [from 15th c.]
3. A sign of impending danger; an omen. [from 15th c.]
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:

     I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me.

Synonyms

• (caution or warning): caution, exhortation, warning

Related terms

• monish
• monishment
• admonish
• admonishment
• admonition
• commonition
• foremonish
• permonish
• premonish
• premonishment
• premonition
• submonish
• submonition

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.