institutor

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• institutour (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

Latin: compare French instituteur. Equivalent to institute +‎ -or.

NounEdit

institutor (plural institutors)

1. One who institutes something.

   institutors of civil policy

2. (obsolete) One who educates; an instructor.

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3. (obsolete) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

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LatinEdit

NounEdit

īnstitūtor m (genitive īnstitūtōris); third declension

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

InflectionEdit

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	īnstitūtor	īnstitūtōrēs
genitive	īnstitūtōris	īnstitūtōrum
dative	īnstitūtōrī	īnstitūtōribus
accusative	īnstitūtōrem	īnstitūtōrēs
ablative	īnstitūtōre	īnstitūtōribus
vocative	īnstitūtor	īnstitūtōrēs

ReferencesEdit

• institutor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “institutor”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “institutor” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• institutor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016