mentor

See also: Mentor

English

Etymology

From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, shares the same root as English mind. Cognate to Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”) and Latin monitor (“one who admonishes”), and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti (compare Latin moneō (“to warn”), causative form of *men- (“to think”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.tɔː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.tɔɹ/, /ˈmɛn.təɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ), -ɛntɔː(ɹ)

Noun

mentor (plural mentors)

1. A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

Derived terms

• mentoress, mentress
• mentrix

Translations

A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

• Bulgarian: наставник (bg) m (nastavnik), ментор m (mentor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指導者 (zh), 指导者 (zh) (zhǐdǎozhě), 導師 (zh), 导师 (zh) (dǎoshī)

• Dutch: mentor m, leidsman (nl) m
• Esperanto: mentoro
• Finnish: ohjaaja (fi), oppi-isä, mentori (fi)
• French: mentor (fr) m
• German: Mentor (de) m, Vertrauensperson (de) f, Vertrauenslehrer m
• Greek: μέντορας (el) m (méntoras)
• Gujarati: શિક્ષક (śikṣak)
• Hebrew: אב רוחני‎, מחנ‎, יועץ‎ (he)

• Italian: mentore (it) m, pigmalione (it) m, tutore (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 or f
• Swedish: mentor (sv) c
• Turkish: hoca (tr) n
• Welsh: mentor

Verb

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

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

Translations

to act as someone's mentor

• Bulgarian: наставлявам (bg) (nastavljavam)
• Finnish: opastaa (fi), ohjata (fi), mentoroida
• German: betreuen (de)

• Serbo-Croatian: mentorirati, mentorisati

Related terms

• mentee

See also

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

Further reading

• mentor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛntər/, [ˈmɛntˢɐ]

Noun

mentor c (singular definite mentoren, plural indefinite mentorer)

1. mentor

Inflection

Declension of mentor

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

Synonyms

• læremester
• vejleder

Further reading

• mentor on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

Etymology

From the Homeric mythological figure Mentor

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

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

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

Synonyms

• raadsman m
• leidsman m, gids m

Derived terms

• mentorspan n

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: mèntòr

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French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr).

Noun

mentor m (plural mentors)

1. mentor, guide

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• monter
• montre, montré

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”)

Noun

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

1. a mentor

References

• “mentor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Noun

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

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

Related terms

• mente

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Romanian

Etymology

From French mentor, from Latin mentor.

Noun

mentor m (plural mentori)

1. mentor

Declension

Declension of mentor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) mentor	mentorul	(niște) mentori	mentorii
genitive/dative	(unui) mentor	mentorului	(unor) mentori	mentorilor
vocative	mentorule		mentorilor

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Spanish

Etymology

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, would mean that mentor ultimately descends from the Proto-Indo-European root *men-.

Noun

mentor m (plural mentores)

1. mentor

Derived terms

• mentoría

Further reading

• “mentor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swedish

Noun

mentor c

1. A mentor

Declension

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

Anagrams

• monter

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Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English mentor.

Noun

mentor m (plural mentoriaid)

1. mentor

Mutation

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.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mentor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• Definition of 'mentor' from the BBC.
• Alternative definition of the source of 'mentor' from Peer Resources.