institutor
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- institutour (obsolete)
- institutor
Etymology edit
From Latin. Compare French instituteur. Equivalent to institute + -or.
Noun edit
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 edit
Noun edit
īnstitūtor m (genitive īnstitūtōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | īnstitūtor | īnstitūtōrēs |
Genitive | īnstitūtōris | īnstitūtōrum |
Dative | īnstitūtōrī | īnstitūtōribus |
Accusative | īnstitūtōrem | īnstitūtōrēs |
Ablative | īnstitūtōre | īnstitūtōribus |
Vocative | īnstitūtor | īnstitūtōrēs |
Descendants edit
- → English: institutor
- → French: instituteur
- → Dutch: instituteur
- → Romanian: institutor
References edit
- “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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French instituteur.
Noun edit
institutor m (plural institutori)
Declension edit
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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
institutor m (plural institutores, feminine institutora, feminine plural institutoras)
Further reading edit
- “institutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014