monoloog
Afrikaans
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch monoloog, borrowed from French monologue, perhaps via Middle French monologue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mo‧no‧loog
Noun
monoloog (plural monoloë, diminutive monologie)
Usage notes
Although monoloog and alleenspraak are synonyms, usage tends to favour alleenspraak when referring to soliloquies in dramas and literary works and monoloog elsewhere, especially when referring to different types of discourse and conversation.
Synonyms
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French monologue, perhaps via Middle French monologue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos).
Pronunciation
Noun
monoloog m (plural monologen, diminutive monoloogje n)
- monologue
- Synonym: alleenspraak
Descendants
- Afrikaans: monoloog
- Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms borrowed from French
- Afrikaans terms derived from French
- Afrikaans terms derived from Middle French
- Afrikaans terms derived from Byzantine Greek
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans nouns
- af:Drama
- af:Talking
- Dutch terms borrowed from French
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch terms derived from Middle French
- Dutch terms derived from Byzantine Greek
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/oːx
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch masculine nouns