different between schoolmaster vs instructor

English

Alternative forms

• scholemaster (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school +? master.

Pronunciation

Noun

schoolmaster (plural schoolmasters)

1. A male teacher.
2. Male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
3. Anything that teaches.

   The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.

Derived terms

• schoolmasterish
• schoolmasterly

Related terms

• schoolmistress
• headmaster / headmistress

Translations

Verb

schoolmaster (third-person singular simple present schoolmasters, present participle schoolmastering, simple past and past participle schoolmastered)

1. To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.

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.