repetitor

English edit

Alternative forms edit

Repetitor

Etymology edit

Compare Latin repetitor (“a reclaimer”).

Noun edit

repetitor (plural repetitors)

A private instructor in a repetitorium.
- 1909, Great Britain Board of Education, Special Reports on Educational Subjects - Volume 23, page 368:
  There is probably not a class throughout the Russian Empire, there is certainly not a gymnasium or a real-school, in which a certain proportion of the pupils do not avail themselves of the services of a repetitor ; and in the case of the lower classes of some schools every second or third pupil does so.
- 2002, B. S. Markesinis, The British Contribution to the Europe of the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN, page 74:
  Where the real difference with the tutorial likes is in the fact that the repetitor does most of the talking in class, analyses the problem and then, at the end, hands out a summary of what the model answer should be.
- 2009, Friedrich Hölderlin, Charlie Louth, Jeremy Adler, Essays and Letters, →ISBN:
  Carl Philipp (1762–1827), repetitor at the Stift from 1789 to 1791 and a Hellenist, he had a strong influence on Ho:lderlin there, kept in contact with him, and was one of the first to try to collect and publish his work; see Letter 51 (to his brother Karl, 2 November 1797).
Someone or something that repeats something.
- 1992, Robert Laurini, Derek Thompson, Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems, →ISBN, page 154:
  For the repetitor, its self-similarity ratio r is 1/3, identifying the subdivision of the original line into three pieces.
- 2008, Treasa O'Driscoll, Celtic Woman: A Memoir of Life's Poetic Journey, →ISBN:
  I like to claim the lineage of reacaire, defined by Dineen as “an auctioneer, a seller, a reciter, a story teller, a gossiper, a poet's repetitor, a ranting female.”
- 2015, Marcel Jousse, The Oral Style (RLE Folklore), →ISBN:
  The oral composer, as well as the repetitor, must then quite naturally be a "counter" of rhytmic shemas.

Crimean Tatar edit

Etymology edit

Latin repetitor, from Latin repetere - to repeat.

Noun edit

repetitor

a private tutor.

Declension edit

Declension of repetitor

nominative	repetitor
genitive	repetitornıñ
dative	repetitorğa
accusative	repetitornı
locative	repetitorda
ablative	repetitordan

References edit

Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Latin edit

Verb edit

repetitor

second/third-person singular future passive imperative of repetō

References edit

“repetitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“repetitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French répétiteur or German Repetitor.

Noun edit

repetitor m (plural repetitori)

(dated) private tutor

Declension edit

Declension of repetitor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) repetitor	repetitorul	(niște) repetitori	repetitorii
genitive/dative	(unui) repetitor	repetitorului	(unor) repetitori	repetitorilor
vocative	repetitorule		repetitorilor

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From repetírati.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /repětiːtor/
Hyphenation: re‧pe‧ti‧tor

Noun edit

repètītor m (Cyrillic spelling репѐтӣтор)

repeater

Declension edit

Declension of repetitor

	singular	plural
nominative	repetitor	repetitori
genitive	repetitora	repetitora
dative	repetitoru	repetitorima
accusative	repetitora	repetitore
vocative	repetitore	repetitori
locative	repetitoru	repetitorima
instrumental	repetitorom	repetitorima

References edit

“repetitor” in Hrvatski jezični portal