different between mentor vs preceptor

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.

English

Alternative forms

• præceptor (archaic)
• præceptour (obsolete, rare)
• preceptour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praeceptor (“commander; instructor”), from the verb praecipi? + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from prae- (“pre-, fore-: before”) + capi? (“to take; to get, to take in, to understand”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?i??s?pt??/

Noun

preceptor (plural preceptors)

1. A teacher or tutor. [from 15th c.]
   • c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin 1990, p. 64:

     A man who had thought so much on the subjects of language and education was surely no ordinary preceptor.
2. The head of a preceptory of Knights Templar. [from 15th c.]
3. (medicine, chiefly US) A doctor who gives practical training to medical students, nurses etc. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• preceptress
• preceptorship

Coordinate terms

• (medical trainee supervisor): orientee

Anagrams

• perceptor

Romanian

Etymology

From French précepteur, from Latin praeceptor.

Noun

preceptor m (plural preceptori)

1. private tutor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Latin praeceptor

Noun

preceptor m (plural preceptores, feminine preceptora, feminine plural preceptoras)

1. preceptor
2. teacher