English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin. Compare French instituteur. Equivalent to institute +‎ -or.

Noun edit

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.

Latin edit

Noun edit

īnstitūtor m (genitive īnstitūtōris); third declension

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

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

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)

  1. teacher

Declension edit

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /instituˈtoɾ/ [ĩns.t̪i.t̪uˈt̪oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: ins‧ti‧tu‧tor

Noun edit

institutor m (plural institutores, feminine institutora, feminine plural institutoras)

  1. (Colombia) teacher

Further reading edit