institutor
Contents
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- institutour (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
Latin: compare French instituteur. Equivalent to institute + -or.
NounEdit
institutor (plural institutors)
- One who institutes something.
- institutors of civil policy
- (obsolete) One who educates; an instructor.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Walker to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
LatinEdit
NounEdit
īnstitūtor m (genitive īnstitūtōris); third declension
InflectionEdit
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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
- institutor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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