instructor

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English

Alternative forms

• instructour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin instructor.

Noun

instructor (plural instructors)

1. One who instructs; a teacher.

Synonyms

• instructer (much less common)

Hyponyms

• instructress (female, dated)
• instructrix (female, dated)

Derived terms

• drill instructor

Related terms

• instruct

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnstrūctōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ins.tɾukˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ins.tɾukˈtoɾ]

Adjective

instructor (feminine instructora, masculine plural instructors, feminine plural instructores)

1. instructive

Noun

instructor m (plural instructors, feminine instructora)

1. instructor

Related terms

• instruir

Further reading

• “instructor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “instructor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “instructor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “instructor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈstruːk.tor/, [ĩːˈs̠t̪ruːkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈstruk.tor/, [inˈst̪rukt̪or]

Noun

īnstrūctor m (genitive īnstrūctōris); third declension

1. Someone who arranges something; preparer.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: instructor
• English: instructor
• French: instructeur
• Galician: instrutor
• → German: Instruktor
• Italian: istruttore
• Portuguese: instrutor
• Russian: инстру́ктор (instrúktor)
• Spanish: instructor

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)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of instrutor.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French instructeur. Compare Russian инстру́ктор (instrúktor).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈstruk.tor/

Noun

instructor m (plural instructori, feminine equivalent instructoare)

1. instructor

Declension

Related terms

• instructaj
• instructiv
• instructivitate
• instrucție, instrucțiune
• instrucțional

See also

• instrui

References

• instructor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin īnstructor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /instɾuɡˈtoɾ/ [ĩns.t̪ɾuɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ins‧truc‧tor

Noun

instructor m (plural instructores, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructoras)

1. instructor, teacher

Related terms

Further reading

• “instructor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10