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English
Etymology
From Latin instructor.
Noun
instructor (plural instructors)
- One who instructs; a teacher.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
one who instructs; a teacher
- Arabic: مُعَلِّم (ar) m (muʕallim), مُعَلِّمَة f (muʕallima)
- Belarusian: інстру́ктар m (instrúktar), інстру́ктарка f (instrúktarka)
- Bengali: মুর্শিদ (bn) (murśid), মুয়াল্লিম (bn) (muẏallim)
- Bulgarian: инстру́ктор (bg) m (instrúktor)
- Catalan: instructor (ca) m
- Chechen: хьехархо (ḥʳexarxo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 教練／教练 (zh) (jiàoliàn)
- Czech: instruktor m
- Danish: instruktør c
- Dutch: leermeester (nl) m, leermeesteres (nl) f, instructeur (nl) m, instructrice (nl) f
- Estonian: instruktor
- Finnish: opettaja (fi), kouluttaja (fi), ohjaaja (fi)
- French: instructeur (fr) m, instructrice (fr) f
- Galician: instrutor (gl) m
- German: Ausbilder (de) m, Ausbilderin (de) f, Lehrender m, Lehrende f, Lehrer (de) m, Lehrerin (de) f, Dozent (de) m (university-level), Dozentin (de) f (university-level)
- Greek: διδάσκαλος (el) m (didáskalos), διδασκάλισσα (el) f (didaskálissa), δάσκαλος (el) m (dáskalos), δασκάλα (el) f (daskála), εκπαιδευτής (el) m (ekpaideftís), εκπαιδεύτρια (el) f (ekpaidéftria)
- Ancient: κατηχητής m (katēkhētḗs), διδάσκαλος (didáskalos)
- Hungarian: oktató (hu), tanár (hu)
- Italian: istruttore (it), insegnante (it)
- Japanese: インストラクター (insutorakutā), 教師 (ja) (きょうし, kyōshi)
- Korean: 강사(講師) (ko) (gangsa), 교사(敎師) (ko) (gyosa)
- Kyrgyz: нускоочу (nuskoocu)
- Latin: docens (la) m or f, praeceptor (la) m, praeceptrix f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: instruktør m, instruktrise m or f (female), instruktørinne m or f (female)
- Nynorsk: instruktør m, instruktrise f (female)
- Persian: آموزگار (fa) (âmuzgâr), مدرس (fa) (modarres), معلم (fa) (mo'allem)
- Polish: instruktor (pl) m, instruktorka (pl) f
- Portuguese: instrutor (pt) m, instrutora f, instructor m (obsolete spelling), instructora f (obsolete spelling)
- Romanian: instructor (ro) m, instructoare (ro) f
- Russian: инстру́ктор (ru) m (instrúktor), инстру́кторша (ru) f (instrúktorša), преподава́тель (ru) m (prepodavátelʹ), преподава́тельница (ru) f (prepodavátelʹnica), учи́тель (ru) m (učítelʹ), учи́тельница (ru) f (učítelʹnica), тре́нер (ru) m (tréner) (sports), тре́нерша (ru) f (trénerša) (sports)
- Spanish: instructor (es) m, instructora (es) f
- Swedish: instruktör (sv) c, instruktris (sv) c (female), handledare (sv) c, handledarinna c (female), lärare (sv) c, lärarinna (sv) c (female), utbildare c
- Tagalog: dalubturo, Dtro.
- Tajik: омӯзгор (tg) (omüzgor), муаллим (tg) (muallim)
- Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)
- Ukrainian: інстру́ктор m (instrúktor), інстру́кторка f (instrúktorka)
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnstrūctōrem.
Pronunciation
Adjective
instructor (feminine instructora, masculine plural instructors, feminine plural instructores)
- instructive
Noun
instructor m (plural instructors, feminine instructora)
- instructor
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
īnstrūctor m (genitive īnstrūctōris); third declension
- Someone who arranges something; preparer.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “instructor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “instructor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- instructor 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)
- instructor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Noun
instructor m (plural instructores, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructoras)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of instrutor.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French instructeur. Compare Russian инстру́ктор (instrúktor).
Pronunciation
Noun
instructor m (plural instructori, feminine equivalent instructoare)
- instructor
Declension
See also
References
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin īnstructor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /instɾuɡˈtoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: ins‧truc‧tor
Noun
instructor m (plural instructores, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructoras)
- instructor, teacher
Further reading