monitor

See also: Monitor

Contents

English

A carboxyhemoglobin saturation monitor

A CRT computer monitor

A monitor lizard

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): /ˈmɒnɨtə/

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. (Britain, 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, The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's, Chapter X,

     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.
    • Francis Bacon

      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

Derived terms

• hall monitor
• hallway monitor

• monitor lizard
• water monitor
• monitorship

Related terms

→

• admonish
• admonition
• admonitory

• monition
• premonition

Translations

someone who watches over something

• Catalan: monitor (ca) m
• Dutch: toezichthouder (nl) m
• Finnish: valvoja (fi), tarkkailija (fi)
• French: moniteur (fr) m, monitrice (fr) f
• Galician: monitor (gl) m
• German: Aufpasser (de) m, Wächter (de) m
• Greek: επιτηρητής (el) n (epitiritís)
• Maori: monita

• Norman: monniteu m
• Portuguese: monitor (pt) m, observador (pt) m
• Romanian: monitor (ro) n
• Russian: наста́вник (ru) m (nastávnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: monitor (sh) m
• Spanish: monitor (es) m
• Swedish: övervakare (sv) c

computer display

• Albanian: monitor m
• Arabic: شَاشَة الْعَرْض‎ f (šāšat al-ʿarḍ), شَاشَة‎ f (šāša)
• Armenian: մոնիտոր (hy) (monitor)
• Azerbaijani: monitor (az)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: маніто́р m (manitór)
• Bengali: মনিটর (môniṭôr)
• Bulgarian: монито́р m (monitór)
• Catalan: monitor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顯示器 (zh), 显示器 (zh) (xiǎnshìqì)

• Czech: monitor (cs) m
• Danish: skærm n, monitor c
• Dutch: monitor (nl), beeldscherm (nl)
• Esperanto: monitoro
• Estonian: monitor (et)
• Finnish: näyttö (fi), monitori (fi), näyttöpääte (fi)
• French: écran (fr) m, moniteur (fr) m
• Galician: monitor (gl) m
• Georgian: მონიტორი (moniṭori)
• German: Bildschirm (de) m, Monitor (de) m
• Greek: οθόνη (el) f (othóni)
• Hebrew: צָג‎ (he) m (tsag)
• Hindi: मॉनिटर (mŏniṭar)
• Hungarian: monitor (hu)
• Icelandic: mænir (is) m, tölvuskjár m, skjár m
• Indonesian: monitor (id)
• Italian: monitor (it) m
• Japanese: モニター (ja) (monitā)
• Kalmyk: делгец (delgets)
• Kazakh: монитор (monïtor)

• Korean: 모니터 (ko) (moniteo)
• Kyrgyz: монитор (monitor)
• Lao: ໜ້າຈໍ (nā chǭ)
• Latvian: monitors m
• Lithuanian: monitorius m, ekranas m
• Malay: pengawas, monitor (ms)
• Mongolian: дэлгэц (mn) (delgets), монитор (monitor)
• Norman: monniteu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dataskjerm m

  Nynorsk: dataskjerm m

• Persian: مانیتور‎ (mânitor)
• Polish: monitor (pl) m
• Portuguese: monitor (pt) m
• Romanian: monitor (ro) n
• Russian: монито́р (ru) m (monitór), экра́н (ru) m (ekrán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: екран m, монитор m

  Roman: ekran (sh) m, monitor (sh) m

• Slovak: monitor m
• Slovene: monitor m
• Spanish: monitor (es) m
• Swedish: bildskärm (sv) m, monitor (sv) c, skärm (sv) c
• Tajik: монитор (monitor)
• Thai: จอภาพ (jɔɔ-pâap), หน้าจอ (nâa-jɔɔ)
• Turkish: ekran (tr)
• Turkmen: monitor
• Ukrainian: моніто́р m (monitór)
• Uzbek: monitor (uz)
• Vietnamese: pháo thuyền (vi), pháo hạm
• Volapük: nünömaskrin

computing: program for viewing and editing

• Swedish: monitor (sv) c

student leader

• Finnish: järjestäjä (fi)
• German: Tutor (de) m
• Manx: ard-ynseydagh m

• Russian: ста́роста (ru) m, f (stárosta)
• Swedish: monitör c

class of armored warship

• Catalan: monitor (ca) m
• Czech: monitor (cs) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: monitor (no) m

  Nynorsk: monitor m

• Swedish: monitor (sv) c

ironclad — see ironclad

monitor lizard — see monitor lizard

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} monitor (la) m

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 显示器 (zh) (xiǎnshìqì)

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.
   • 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide, World Health Organization, page 134,

     Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.

   • 1997, Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers, Volumes 23-373, page 239,

     During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO₂, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.

   • 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

watch over, guard

• Albanian: vëzhgoj (sq)
• Arabic: رَاقَّبَ‎ (rāqqaba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 監測 (zh), 监测 (zh) (jiāncè)

• Dutch: controleren (nl), surveilleren (nl), toezicht houden
• Finnish: vahtia (fi), valvoa (fi), tarkkailla (fi)
• French: contrôler (fr), surveiller (fr), monitorer (fr)
• German: überwachen (de), abhören (de), überprüfen (de), aufpassen (de), kontrollieren (de)
• Greek: παρακολουθώ (el) (parakolouthó), εποπτεύω (el) (epoptévo)

• Italian: monitorare (it), supervisionare
• Maori: monita, aroturuki
• Norwegian: overvåke (no)
• Polish: monitorować
• Portuguese: monitorar, monitorizar
• Russian: отсле́живать (ru) impf (otsléživatʹ), отследи́ть (ru) pf (otsledítʹ), следи́ть (ru) impf (sledítʹ), проследи́ть (ru) pf (prosledítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: надгледати, nadgledati (sh)
• Spanish: controlar (es), monitorear (es), monitorizar (es)
• Swedish: övervaka (sv), kontrollera (sv)

Further reading

• monitor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• monitor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• montoir, tromino

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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

• (educator): educador

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Czech

Noun

monitor m

1. monitor (computer display)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	monitor	monitory
genitive	monitoru	monitorů
dative	monitoru	monitorům
accusative	monitor	monitory
vocative	monitore	monitory
locative	monitoru	monitorech
instrumental	monitorem	monitory

Related terms

• monitorovat

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Dutch

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 monitorren, 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

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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

Noun

monitor (plural monitorok)

1. (computing) 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

Possessive forms of monitor
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	monitorom	monitoraim
2nd person sing.	monitorod	monitoraid
3rd person sing.	monitora	monitorai
1st person plural	monitorunk	monitoraink
2nd person plural	monitorotok	monitoraitok
3rd person plural	monitoruk	monitoraik

or

Possessive forms of monitor
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	monitorom	monitorjaim
2nd person sing.	monitorod	monitorjaid
3rd person sing.	monitorja	monitorjai
1st person plural	monitorunk	monitorjaink
2nd person plural	monitorotok	monitorjaitok
3rd person plural	monitorjuk	monitorjaik

References

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor.

Noun

monitor m (invariable)

1. monitor (apparatus)

Anagrams

• rimonto, rimontò

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ni.tor/, [ˈmɔ.nɪ.tɔr]

Noun

monitor m (genitive monitōris); third declension

1. counselor, preceptor
2. prompter

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	monitor	monitōrēs
Genitive	monitōris	monitōrum
Dative	monitōrī	monitōribus
Accusative	monitōrem	monitōrēs
Ablative	monitōre	monitōribus
Vocative	monitor	monitōrēs

Descendants

• English: monitor
• Russian: монито́р (monitór)

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

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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

• monitorowy

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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

• (monitor lizard): varano, lagarto-monitor

Etymology 2

From English monitor.

Noun

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

1. (computing) monitor (computer display)

Synonyms

• (monitor): ecrã, tela

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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

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Spanish

Noun

monitor m (plural monitores)

1. monitor (electronic device)

Synonyms

• pantalla

Noun

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

1. instructor, monitor
2. coach, trainer

Synonyms

• (trainer): entrenador