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Latin
Etymology
From insistō + -tor.
Noun
īnstitor m (genitive īnstitōris); third declension
- shopkeeper, broker
- huckster, hawker, peddler, salesman
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “institor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “institor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- institor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “institor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “institor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin