instructor

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English

Alternative forms

instructour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin instructor.

Noun

instructor (plural instructors)

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

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)

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)

instructive

Noun

instructor m (plural instructors, feminine instructora)

instructor

Related terms

instruir

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

īnstrūctor m (genitive īnstrūctōris); third declension

Someone who arranges something; preparer.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnstrūctor	īnstrūctōrēs
Genitive	īnstrūctōris	īnstrūctōrum
Dative	īnstrūctōrī	īnstrūctōribus
Accusative	īnstrūctōrem	īnstrūctōrēs
Ablative	īnstrūctōre	īnstrūctōribus
Vocative	īnstrūctor	īnstrūctōrēs

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)

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) 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)

instructor

Declension

Declension of instructor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) instructor	instructorul	(niște) instructori	instructorii
genitive/dative	(unui) instructor	instructorului	(unor) instructori	instructorilor
vocative	instructorule		instructorilor

Related terms

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)

instructor, teacher

Related terms

instruir

instructor

English

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Catalan

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Adjective

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Latin

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Noun

Declension

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Descendants

References

Portuguese

Noun

Romanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

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References

Spanish

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Noun

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