different between preceptor vs instructor

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

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)

Related terms

• instruct

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin instructor.

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.
• “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 ?nstru? (“build, construct; arrange”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in?stru?k.tor/, [???s?(t?)?u?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in?struk.tor/, [in?st??ukt??r]

Noun

?nstr?ctor m (genitive ?nstr?ct?ris); 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: ??????????? (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, 1883–1887)
• instructor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Noun

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

1. Obsolete spelling of instrutor (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?struk.tor/

Noun

instructor m (plural instructori, feminine equivalent instructoare)

1. instructor

Declension

Related terms

• instructaj
• instructiv
• instructivitate
• instruc?ie, instruc?iune
• instruc?ional

See also

• instrui

References

• instructor in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin instructor.

Noun

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

1. instructor, teacher

Related terms

• instruir

Further reading

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