different between tutor vs preceptor

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tut?/
• • Homophones: tooter, Tudor
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tju?t?/
• Rhymes: -u?t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin t?tor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.

Alternative forms

• tutour (archaic)

Noun

tutor (plural tutors, feminine tutoress)

1. One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.

2. (Britain) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
3. (obsolete or Quebec law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

Synonyms

• (one who teaches): preceptor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

1. (transitive) To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.

2. (transitive, archaic) To treat with authority or sternness.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “tutor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• tutor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tutor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of Demonic tutor, name of an early Magic: The Gathering card with this effect.

Noun

tutor (plural tutors)

1. (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.

Verb

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

1. (collectible card games) To fetch a card from one's deck.

Anagrams

• Routt, Trout, trout

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tutor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tu?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tu?to?/

Noun

tutor m (plural tutors, feminine tutora)

1. tutor (teacher)
2. guardian (person responsible for another)

Related terms

• tutela
• tutoria

Further reading

• “tutor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

Noun

tutor

1. tutor (person)

Declension

Anagrams

• rutot, rutto, torut, turot

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.tor/, [?t?u?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.tor/, [?t?u?t??r]

Etymology 1

From tueor +? -tor, via the old past participle t?tus (later replaced by tuitus).

Noun

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

1. watcher, protector, defender
2. guardian (of minors)
3. tutor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

From tueor +? -t?, via the old past participle t?tus (later replaced by tuitus).

Verb

t?tor (present infinitive t?t?r? or t?t?rier, perfect active t?t?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I guard, protect, defend

Conjugation

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.

Descendants

References

• tutor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tutor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tutor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tutor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tutor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

From English tutor, from Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur, from Latin t?tor, from tueor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.t?r/

Noun

tutor m pers

1. tutor (university officer responsible for students in a particular hall)
2. (archaic) tutor (one who teaches another in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) tutorski

Further reading

• tutor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tutor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

Noun

tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. tutor (one who teaches in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
2. (law) guardian (person legally responsible for a minor or incompetent person)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tû?tor/
• Hyphenation: tu?tor

Noun

t?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. tutor
2. guardian

Declension

References

• “tutor” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?to?/, [t?u?t?o?]

Noun

tutor m or f (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. guardian (person responsible for another)
2. tutor (teacher)

Related terms

• tutela
• tutoría

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

tutor

1. indefinite plural of tuta

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