institutor
English
Alternative forms
- institutour (obsolete)
- institutor
Etymology
From Latin . Compare French instituteur. Equivalent to institute + -or.
Noun
institutor (plural institutors)
- One who institutes something.
- institutors of civil policy
- (obsolete) One who educates; an instructor.
- 1683, William Walker, “Preface”, in English examples of the Latin syntaxis […] :
- The two great aims which every institutor of youth should mainly and intentionally drive at
- (obsolete) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
Latin
Noun
īnstitūtor m (genitive īnstitūtōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- → English: institutor
- → French: instituteur
- → Dutch: instituteur
- → Romanian: institutor
References
- “institutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- institutor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- institutor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- institutor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French instituteur.
Declension
Declension of institutor
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) institutor | institutorul | (niște) institutori | institutorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) institutor | institutorului | (unor) institutori | institutorilor |
vocative | institutorule | institutorilor |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /instituˈtoɾ/ [ĩns.t̪i.t̪uˈt̪oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: ins‧ti‧tu‧tor
Noun
institutor m (plural institutores, feminine institutora, feminine plural institutoras)
Further reading
- “institutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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