different between educator vs mentor

English

Etymology

From Latin ?duc?tor; synchronically analyzable as educate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??d??ke?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d??ke?t?/, /??dj?ke?t?/
• Hyphenation: ed?u?ca?tor

Noun

educator (plural educators)

1. A person distinguished for his/her educational work, a teacher.

Translations

Anagrams

• aeroduct, outraced

Latin

Etymology

From ?duc? (“bring up, rear, educate, train, or produce”) +? -tor (agent suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?.du?ka?.tor/, [e?d???kä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.du?ka.tor/, [?d?u?k??t??r]

Noun

?duc?tor m (genitive ?duc?t?ris, feminine ?duc?tr?x); third declension

1. educator, tutor
2. foster father

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• ?duc?tr?x

Descendants

• Catalan: educador
• Galician: educador
• Italian: educatore
• Portuguese: educador
• Spanish: educador

Verb

?duc?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of ?duc?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of ?duc?

References

• educator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• educator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• educator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French éducateur, from Latin ?duc?tor.

Noun

educator m (plural educatori, feminine equivalent educatoare)

1. educator

Declension

English

Etymology

From French mentor, from Ancient Greek ?????? (Mént?r, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, shares the same root as English mind. Cognate to Sanskrit ????? (mant?, “advisor, counselor”) and Latin monitor (“one who admonishes”), and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti (compare Latin mone? (“to warn”), causative form of *men- (“to think”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?n.t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?n.t??/, /?m?n.t??/
• Rhymes: -?nt?(?), -?nt??(?)

Noun

mentor (plural mentors)

1. A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

Derived terms

• mentoress, mentress
• mentrix

Translations

Verb

mentor (third-person singular simple present mentors, present participle mentoring, simple past and past participle mentored)

1. (transitive) To act as someone's mentor

Translations

Related terms

• mentee

See also

• coach
• nestor
• sponsor
• Article on the etymology and history of the word “mentor” on languagehat.com

Further reading

• mentor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Ermont, Merton, Monter, Termon, meront, metron, montre, termon, tormen

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (Mént?r, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?nt?r/, [?m?nt??]

Noun

mentor c (singular definite mentoren, plural indefinite mentorer)

1. mentor

Inflection

Synonyms

• læremester
• vejleder

Further reading

• mentor on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

From the Homeric mythological figure Mentor

Pronunciation

Noun

mentor m (plural mentors or mentoren, diminutive mentortje n)

1. A mentor, wise/grey adviser, tutor etc.

Synonyms

• raadsman m
• leidsman m, gids m

Derived terms

• mentorspan n

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (Mént?r).

Noun

mentor m (plural mentors)

1. mentor, guide

Further reading

• “mentor” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• monter
• montre, montré

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (Mént?r, “Mentor”)

Noun

mentor m (definite singular mentoren, indefinite plural mentorer, definite plural mentorene)

1. a mentor

References

• “mentor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

mentor m (plural mentores, feminine mentora, feminine plural mentoras)

1. mentor (a wise and trusted counsellor or teacher)

Related terms

• mente

Romanian

Etymology

From French mentor, from Latin mentor.

Noun

mentor m (plural mentori)

1. mentor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (Mént?r, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece may share the same root as English mind, would mean that mentor ultimately descends from the Proto-Indo-European root *men-.

Noun

mentor m (plural mentores)

1. mentor

Derived terms

• mentoría

Swedish

Noun

mentor c

1. A mentor

Declension

Anagrams

• monter

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English mentor.

Noun

mentor m (plural mentoriaid)

1. mentor

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “mentor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• Definition of 'mentor' from the BBC.
• Alternative definition of the source of 'mentor' from Peer Resources.