educator

From Latin ēducātor. By surface analysis, educate +‎ -or.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtə/, /ˈɛdjʊkeɪtə/

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• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧ca‧tor

educator (plural educators)

1. A person distinguished for their educational work, a teacher.
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     This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^[sic] years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

• aeroduct, outraced

From ēducō (“bring up, rear, educate, train, or produce”) +‎ -tor (agent suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.duˈkaː.tor/, [eːd̪ʊˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.duˈka.tor/, [ed̪uˈkäːt̪or]

ēducātor m (genitive ēducātōris, feminine ēducātrīx); third declension

1. educator, tutor
2. foster father

Third-declension noun.

• ēducātrīx

• Catalan: educador
• French: éducateur
• Galician: educador
• Italian: educatore
• Portuguese: educador
• Romanian: educator
• Spanish: educador

ēducātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ēducō

• “educator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “educator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• educator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French éducateur, from Latin ēducātor. Equivalent to educa +‎ -tor.

educator m (plural educatori, feminine equivalent educatoare)

1. educator