mentor

See also: Mentor

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, may share the same root as English mind. Akin to Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “one who thinks”) and Latin monitor (“one who admonishes”), and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mon-eyo-, causative form of *men- (“to think”).

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnˌtɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnˌtɔɹ/, /ˈmɛn.təɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ), -ɛntɔː(ɹ)

NounEdit

mentor (plural mentors)

1. A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

TranslationsEdit

A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指導者 (zh), 指导者 (zh) (zhǐdǎozhě)

• Dutch: mentor m, leidsman m
• Finnish: ohjaaja (fi), oppi-isä, mentori (fi)
• French: mentor (fr) m
• German: Mentor (de) m, Vertrauensperson (de) f, Vertrauenslehrer m
• Greek: μέντωρ m (méntor)
• Gujarati: શિક્ષક (śikṣak)
• Hebrew: אב רוחני‎‎, מחנ‎‎, יועץ‎‎

• Italian: mentore (it) m
• Japanese: メンター (mentā)
• Korean: 멘토 (mento)
• Portuguese: mentor (pt) m
• Russian: наста́вник (ru) m (nastávnik), ме́нтор (ru) m (méntor)
• Spanish: mentor (es) m, f
• Swedish: mentor (sv) c
• Turkish: hoca (tr) n
• Welsh: mentor

VerbEdit

mentor (third-person singular simple present mentors, present participle mentoring, simple past and past participle mentored)

1. (transitive) To act as someone's mentor

TranslationsEdit

to act as someone's mentor

• Finnish: opastaa (fi), ohjata (fi), mentoroida
• German: betreuen (de)

• Serbo-Croatian: mentorirati, mentorisati

Related termsEdit

• mentee

See alsoEdit

• coach
• nestor
• sponsor
• Article on the etymology and history of the word “mentor” on languagehat.com

ReferencesEdit

AnagramsEdit

• Ermont, Merton, Monter, Termon, meront, metron, montre

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mɛntər/, [ˈmɛntˢɐ]

NounEdit

mentor c (singular definite mentoren, plural indefinite mentorer)

1. mentor

InflectionEdit

Declension of mentor

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mentor	mentoren	mentorer	mentorerne
genitive	mentors	mentorens	mentorers	mentorernes

SynonymsEdit

• læremester
• vejleder

Further readingEdit

• mentor on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From the Homeric mythological figure Mentor

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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NounEdit

mentor m (plural mentors or mentoren, diminutive mentortje n)

1. A mentor, wise/grey adviser, tutor etc.

SynonymsEdit

• raadsman m
• leidsman m, gids m

Derived termsEdit

• mentorspan n

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr).

NounEdit

mentor m (plural mentors)

1. mentor, guide

Further readingEdit

• “mentor” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

AnagramsEdit

• monter
• montre, montré

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”)

NounEdit

mentor m (definite singular mentoren, indefinite plural mentorer, definite plural mentorene)

1. a mentor

ReferencesEdit

• “mentor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

mentor m (plural mentores, feminine mentora, feminine plural mentoras)

1. mentor (a wise and trusted counsellor or teacher)

Related termsEdit

• mente

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

mentor m (plural mentores)

1. mentor

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

mentor c

1. A mentor

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mentor
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mentor	mentorn	mentorer	mentorerna
Genitive	mentors	mentorns	mentorers	mentorernas

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WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English mentor.

NounEdit

mentor m (plural mentoriaid)

1. mentor

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mentor	fentor	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

• “mentor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 2014
• Definition of 'mentor' from the BBC.
• Alternative definition of the source of 'mentor' from Peer Resources.