instructor

• instructour (obsolete)

From Latin instructor, equivalent to instruct +‎ -or.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈstɹʌktɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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instructor (plural instructors)

1. One who instructs; a teacher.
   • 2014 March 14, Jacqueline Taylor, “Life without tenure: how I've found fulfilment in US academia”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     According to the National Centre for Education Statistics' most recent numbers (2012), 50% of instructors at degree-granting institutions in the US are part-time. […] Through teaching as an adjunct instructor while still a graduate student, I've had the luxury of developing my career: testing out teaching strategies, exploring innovative courses, and developing relationships with students – all while working on my dissertation.

• instructer (much less common)

• instructress (female, dated)
• instructrix (female, dated)

• instruct

Borrowed from Latin īnstrūctōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ins.tɾukˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ins.tɾukˈtoɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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instructor (feminine instructora, masculine plural instructors, feminine plural instructores)

1. instructive

instructor m (plural instructors, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructores)

1. instructor

• instruir

• “instructor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “instructor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “instructor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “instructor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩːˈstruːk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈst̪ruk.t̪or]

īnstrūctor m (genitive īnstrūctōris); third declension

1. Someone who arranges something; preparer.

Third-declension noun.

• Catalan: instructor
• English: instructor
• French: instructeur
• Galician: instrutor
• → German: Instruktor
• Italian: istruttore
• Portuguese: instrutor
• Romanian: instructor
• Russian: инстру́ктор (instrúktor)
• Spanish: instructor

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

instructor m (plural instructores, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructoras)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of instrutor.

Borrowed from French instructeur. Compare Russian инстру́ктор (instrúktor).

• IPA^(key): /inˈstruk.tor/

instructor m (plural instructori, feminine equivalent instructoare)

1. instructor

• instructaj
• instructiv
• instructivitate
• instrucție, instrucțiune
• instrucțional

• instrui

• “instructor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From Latin īnstructor.

• IPA^(key): /instɾuɡˈtoɾ/ [ĩns.t̪ɾuɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ins‧truc‧tor

instructor m (plural instructores, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructoras)

1. instructor, teacher

• “instructor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024