institutor

English

Alternative forms

  • institutour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin īnstitūtor.[1] Compare French instituteur. By surface analysis, institute +‎ -or.

Noun

institutor (plural institutors)

  1. One who institutes something.
    institutors of civil policy
  2. (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
  3. (obsolete) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

References

  1. ^ “institutor, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Noun

īnstitūtor m (genitive īnstitūtōris); third declension

  1. founder, creator, erector, contractor
  2. teacher, instructor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative īnstitūtor īnstitūtōrēs
genitive īnstitūtōris īnstitūtōrum
dative īnstitūtōrī īnstitūtōribus
accusative īnstitūtōrem īnstitūtōrēs
ablative īnstitūtōre īnstitūtōribus
vocative īnstitūtor īnstitūtōrēs

Descendants

  • → English: institutor
  • → French: instituteur

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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French instituteur.

Noun

institutor m (plural institutori)

  1. teacher

Declension

Declension of institutor
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative institutor institutorul institutori institutorii
genitive-dative institutor institutorului 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)

  1. (Colombia) teacher

Further reading

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