{"id":20998,"date":"2021-05-25T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20998"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:30:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:30:55","slug":"sample-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20998","title":{"rendered":"Sample Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Dutch the word <strong>monster<\/strong> [\u02c8m\u0254nst\u0259r] means a sample, and also a monster. It was borrowed from the Old French word <em>monstre<\/em> (monster) in the 13th century and at first meant a monster or monstrosity, and later in the 14th century came to mean a sample, specimen or test piece as well. It is also used to describe something very large [<a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/monster\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/32905518975\/in\/photolist-277CThe-RU4v6h-QRa8Fj-S8Koo4-R79YHa\/\" title=\"Tree monster\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/683\/32905518975_2eba2848ec_z.jpg\" alt=\"Tree monster\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Old French word <em>monstre<\/em> came from the Latin <em>m\u014dnstr\u0101re<\/em> (to show), from <em>m\u014dnstrum<\/em> (a divine omen indicating misfortune, an evil omen, portent; monster), from <em>mon\u0113re<\/em> (to warn, admonish). From the same root we get such English words as <strong>monster<\/strong>, <strong>muster<\/strong>, <strong>monitor<\/strong>, <strong>admonish<\/strong>  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/monstre#Old_French\">source<\/a>], and also <strong>money<\/strong>, which is named after the Roman goddess Juno Moneta, whose temple in Rome housed the mint  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/money\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of how <strong>monster<\/strong> is used (from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duolingo.com\/learn\">Duolingo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/dutch-english\/monster\">Reverso<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We wegen het monster af = We weigh the sample (or monster)<\/li>\n<li>Hij neemt een monster van onze koeien = He takes a sample from our cows<\/li>\n<li>Een troebel monster moet worden gefiltreerd = When the sample is cloudy, it should be filtered<\/li>\n<li>Hier kon ik het monster aanroepen = It&#8217;s where I was told I could summon the monster<\/li>\n<li>Loch Ness is de perfecte bergplaats voor een prehistorisch monster = Loch Ness would be the perfect hiding place for a prehistoric monster<\/li>\n<li>Een driekoppig monster en vliegende schotels = A three-headed sea monster and some flying saucers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>monsterlijk = monstrous(ly)<\/li>\n<li>monstergolf = monster wave, giant breaker, rogue<\/li>\n<li>monsterjacht = monster hunt(ing), monster yacht<\/li>\n<li>monsterjager = monster hunter<\/li>\n<li>monsterverbond = monstrous convenant, unholy alliance<\/li>\n<li>monsterzege = landslide (victory), monster victory<\/li>\n<li>zeemonster = sea monster<\/li>\n<li>bloedmonster = blood sample<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is monster, or something similar, used to mean something very big in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dutch the word monster [\u02c8m\u0254nst\u0259r] means a sample, and also a monster. It was borrowed from the Old French word monstre (monster) in the 13th century and at first meant a monster or monstrosity, and later in the 14th century came to mean a sample, specimen or test piece as well. It is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,10,15,34,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-old-french","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21003,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998\/revisions\/21003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}