tutor
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtutɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtjuːtə/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin tūtor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.
Alternative formsEdit
- tutour (archaic)
NounEdit
tutor (plural tutors, feminine tutoress)
- One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
- He passed the difficult class with help from his tutor.
- (UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
- (obsolete or Quebec law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
SynonymsEdit
- (one who teaches): preceptor
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)
- (transitive) To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.
- To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.
- (transitive, archaic) To treat with authority or sternness.
TranslationsEdit
Further readingEdit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “tutor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “tutor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “tutor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Etymology 2Edit
Ellipsis of Demonic tutor, name of an early Magic: The Gathering card with this effect.
NounEdit
tutor (plural tutors)
- (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.
VerbEdit
tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)
- (collectible card games) To fetch a card from one's deck.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tutor m (plural tutors, feminine tutora)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “tutor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Further readingEdit
- “tutor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
ChineseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tutor
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) tutor (one who teaches)
Etymology 2Edit
From clipping of English tutorial.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tutor
ReferencesEdit
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
- John Gibbons (1987), “Code-mixing and code choice : a Hong Kong case study”, in Multilingual Matters, page 56
FinnishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tutor
- Alternative form of tuutori.
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of tutor (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tutor | tutorit | ||
genitive | tutorin | tutorien tutoreiden tutoreitten | ||
partitive | tutoria | tutoreita tutoreja | ||
illative | tutoriin | tutoreihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tutor | tutorit | ||
accusative | nom. | tutor | tutorit | |
gen. | tutorin | |||
genitive | tutorin | tutorien tutoreiden tutoreitten | ||
partitive | tutoria | tutoreita tutoreja | ||
inessive | tutorissa | tutoreissa | ||
elative | tutorista | tutoreista | ||
illative | tutoriin | tutoreihin | ||
adessive | tutorilla | tutoreilla | ||
ablative | tutorilta | tutoreilta | ||
allative | tutorille | tutoreille | ||
essive | tutorina | tutoreina | ||
translative | tutoriksi | tutoreiksi | ||
instructive | — | tutorein | ||
abessive | tutoritta | tutoreitta | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From tueor + -tor, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).
NounEdit
tūtor m (genitive tūtōris, feminine tūtrīx); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | tūtor | tūtōrēs |
Genitive | tūtōris | tūtōrum |
Dative | tūtōrī | tūtōribus |
Accusative | tūtōrem | tūtōrēs |
Ablative | tūtōre | tūtōribus |
Vocative | tūtor | tūtōrēs |
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From tueor + -tō, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
tūtor (present infinitive tūtārī or tūtārier, perfect active tūtātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of tūtor (first conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | tūtor | tūtāris, tūtāre |
tūtātur | tūtāmur | tūtāminī | tūtantur |
imperfect | tūtābar | tūtābāris, tūtābāre |
tūtābātur | tūtābāmur | tūtābāminī | tūtābantur | |
future | tūtābor | tūtāberis, tūtābere |
tūtābitur | tūtābimur | tūtābiminī | tūtābuntur | |
perfect | tūtātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | tūtātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | tūtātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | tūter | tūtēris, tūtēre |
tūtētur | tūtēmur | tūtēminī | tūtentur |
imperfect | tūtārer | tūtārēris, tūtārēre |
tūtārētur | tūtārēmur | tūtārēminī | tūtārentur | |
perfect | tūtātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | tūtātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | tūtāre | — | — | tūtāminī | — |
future | — | tūtātor | tūtātor | — | — | tūtantor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | tūtārī, tūtārier1 |
tūtātum esse | tūtātūrum esse | — | — | — | |
participles | tūtāns | tūtātus | tūtātūrus | — | — | tūtandus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
tūtandī | tūtandō | tūtandum | tūtandō | tūtātum | tūtātū |
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
DescendantsEdit
- Catalan: tudar
- Franco-Provençal: tuar
- Old French: tuer (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: tudar, tuar
- Occitan: tuar
- Sardinian: tutare (Bitti)
- Vulgar Latin: *adtūtāre, *extūtāre, *distūtāre (see there for further descendants)
ReferencesEdit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “tutari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 13: To–Tyrus, page 449
Further readingEdit
- “tutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tutor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “tutor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tutor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English tutor, from Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur, from Latin tūtor, from tueor.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tutor m pers
- tutor (university officer responsible for students in a particular hall)
- (archaic) tutor (one who teaches another in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin tūtōrem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tȗtor m (Cyrillic spelling ту̑тор)
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “tutor” in Hrvatski jezični portal
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
tutor
- indefinite plural of tuta.