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What Is the Latin Word for Computer

English [edit]

A blood oxygen saturation monitor

HMS Marshal Ney, a monitor (warship)

Alternative forms [edit]

  • monitour ( obsolete )

Etymology [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

  • ( Received Pronunciation ) IPA(key): /ˈmɒnɨtə/

Noun [edit]

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.

  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 [edit]

  • hall monitor
  • hallway monitor
  • monitor lizard
  • monitorship
  • water monitor

[edit]

  • admonish
  • admonition
  • admonitory
  • monition
  • premonition

Translations [edit]

someone who watches over something

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: мони́тор m ( monítor )
  • 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), képernyő  (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 )
  • Khmer: ម៉ូនីទ័រ ( mouniitɔə ), អេក្រង់  (km) ( ʼeikrɑng )
  • Korean: 모니터  (ko) ( moniteo )
  • Kyrgyz: монитор ( monitor )
  • Lao: ໜ້າຈໍ ( nā chǭ )
  • Latvian: monitors m
  • Lithuanian: monitorius m , ekranas m
  • Macedonian: мо́нитор  (mk) m ( mónitor )
  • 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
  • Yiddish: מאָניטאָר‎ ( monitor )

computing: program for viewing and editing

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

See also [edit]

  • display
  • screen
  • VDU

Verb [edit]

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[1], 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[2], volume 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 [edit]

  • oversee, supervise, track

Translations [edit]

watch over, guard

  • Albanian: vëzhgoj  (sq)
  • Arabic: رَاقَّبَ‎ ( rāqqaba )
  • Bulgarian: надзиравам  (bg) ( nadziravam ), контролирам  (bg) ( kontroliram )
  • 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, guardare  (it)
  • 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 [edit]

  • 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 [edit]

  • montoir, tromino

Catalan [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin monitōrem, accusative of monitor ( " warner " ).

Noun [edit]

monitor m (plural monitors)

  1. monitor, someone who watches
  2. teacher, educator
  3. ( computing ) monitor, display screen
  4. ( nautical ) monitor ( type of warship )

Synonyms [edit]

  • ( educator ) : educador

Derived terms [edit]

  • monitorar

Further reading [edit]

  • "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 [edit]

Noun [edit]

monitor m

  1. monitor ( computer display )

Declension [edit]

[edit]

  • monitorovat

Dutch [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmoː.niˌtɔr/
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor

Noun [edit]

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 [edit]

  • rammonitor

Hungarian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin monitor ( " warner " ), from perfect passive participle monitus ( " warning " ), from verb monere ( " to warn, admonish, remind " ).[1]

Pronunciation [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

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 [edit]

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
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		monitoré monitoroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		monitoréi monitorokéi
Possessive forms of monitor
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. monitorom monitoraim
monitorjaim
2nd person sing. monitorod monitoraid
monitorjaid
3rd person sing. monitora
monitorja 		monitorai
monitorjai
1st person plural monitorunk monitoraink
monitorjaink
2nd person plural monitorotok monitoraitok
monitorjaitok
3rd person plural monitoruk
monitorjuk 		monitoraik
monitorjaik

References [edit]

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára ('A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words'). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading [edit]

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

Italian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from English monitor.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ni.tor/ [1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔnitor
  • Hyphenation: mò‧ni‧tor

Noun [edit]

monitor m (invariable)

  1. monitor (apparatus)

References [edit]

  1. ^ monitor in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams [edit]

  • rimonto, rimontò

Latin [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin moneō [from Proto-Italic *moneō, from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- ( " to think " )] + -tor. Compare Ancient Greek Ancient Greek Μέντωρ ( Méntōr, " Mentor " ) and Sanskrit मन्तृ ( mantṛ, " advisor, counselor " ).

Pronunciation [edit]

  • ( Classical ) IPA(key): /ˈmo.ni.tor/, [ˈmɔnɪt̪ɔr]
  • ( Ecclesiastical ) IPA(key): /ˈmo.ni.tor/, [ˈmɔːnit̪ɔr]

Noun [edit]

monitor m (genitive monitōris); third declension

  1. counselor, preceptor
  2. prompter, warner

Declension [edit]

Third-declension noun.

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

Descendants [edit]

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

References [edit]

  • 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 [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

monitor minan

  1. ( computing ) monitor (display device)

Declension [edit]

Derived terms [edit]

  • monitorowy

Portuguese [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Latin monitōre.

Noun [edit]

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 [edit]

From English monitor.

Noun [edit]

monitor m (plural monitores)

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

Romanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From French monitor.

Noun [edit]

monitor n (plural monitoare)

  1. monitor

Declension [edit]

Serbo-Croatian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From English monitor.

Pronunciation [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

mònitor m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀нитор)

  1. monitor (computing, etc.)

Declension [edit]

Spanish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin monitor.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA(key): /moniˈtoɾ/, [mo.niˈt̪oɾ]

Noun [edit]

monitor m (plural monitores)

  1. monitor (electronic device)
    Synonym: pantalla

Noun [edit]

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

  1. instructor, monitor
  2. coach, trainer
    Synonym: entrenador

Further reading [edit]

  • "monitor" in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

What Is the Latin Word for Computer

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/monitor