instructor

• instructour (obsolete)

From Latin instructor.

instructor (plural instructors)

1. One who instructs; a teacher.

• instructer (much less common)

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

• drill instructor

• instruct

Borrowed from Latin īnstrūctōrem.

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

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

1. instructive

instructor m (plural instructors, feminine instructora)

1. instructor

• instruir

• “instructor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “instructor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

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

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

īnstrūctor m (genitive īnstrūctōris); third declension

1. Someone who arranges something; preparer.

Third-declension noun.

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

• “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.

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

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of instrutor.

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

• IPA^(key): /inˈstruk.tor/

instructor m (plural instructori, feminine equivalent instructoare)

1. instructor

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

• instrui

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

From Latin īnstructor.

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

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

1. instructor, teacher

• “instructor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014