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Who invented Monoid?

I was trying to find (and failed) the original author of either the concept of Monoid (set with binary associative operation and identity) the name (which sounds french ? and also Dioid (for what ...
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How is called a semigroup...

Does anyone know, how is called a semigroup in which every equation $ax=b$ has only a finite set (maybe empty) of solutions?
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