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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *enstroutos, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“prepare; equip; arrange”).
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /inˈstruːk.tus/,
Participle
īnstrūctus (feminine īnstrūcta, neuter īnstrūctum, comparative īnstrūctior, adverb īnstrūctē); first/second-declension participle
- equipped, prepared
- arranged
- trained, skilled
- Synonyms: doctus, callidus, gnarus, sollers, peritus, cōnsultus
- Antonyms: rudis, inexpertus, imperītus, stultus, hospes, iners, ignārus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “instructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “instructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- instructus 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)
- instructus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have received only a moderate education: a doctrina mediocriter instructum esse
- a comfortably-furnished house: domus necessariis rebus instructa