institutor

• institutour (obsolete)
• institutor

From Latin . Compare French instituteur. Equivalent to institute +‎ -or.

institutor (plural institutors)

1. One who institutes something.

   institutors of civil policy

2. (obsolete) One who educates; an instructor.
   • 1683, William Walker, “Preface”, in English examples of the Latin syntaxis :

     The two great aims which every institutor of youth should mainly and intentionally drive at

3. (obsolete) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

īnstitūtor m (genitive īnstitūtōris); third declension

1. founder, creator, erector, contractor
2. teacher, instructor

Third-declension noun.

• → English: institutor
• → French: instituteur
  • → Dutch: instituteur
  • → Romanian: institutor

• “institutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• institutor 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)
• institutor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• institutor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from French instituteur.

institutor m (plural institutori)

1. teacher

• IPA^(key): /instituˈtoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ins‧ti‧tu‧tor

institutor m (plural institutores, feminine institutora, feminine plural institutoras)

1. (Colombia) teacher

• “institutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28