educator

English

Etymology

From Latin ēducātor; synchronically analyzable as educate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒəkeɪtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdjʊkeɪtə/
• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧ca‧tor

Noun

educator (plural educators)

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

Translations

person distinguished for his/her educational work — See also translations at teacher

• Arabic: مُعَلِّم‏‎ (ar) m (muʿallim)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教育家 (zh) (jiàoyùjiā)

• Finnish: opettaja (fi), kasvattaja (fi)
• Maori: kaiwhakaako, kaiako
• Russian: педаго́г (ru) m (pedagóg), наста́вник (ru) m (nastávnik), наста́вница (ru) f (nastávnica)

teacher — see teacher

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• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} edukisto
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} აღმზრდელი (aɣmzrdeli)

• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
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• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} addysgwr (cy)

Anagrams

• aeroduct, outraced

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.duˈkaː.tor/, [eː.dʊˈkaː.tɔr]

Noun

ēducātor m (genitive ēducātōris); third declension

1. educator, tutor
2. foster father

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ēducātor	ēducātōrēs
genitive	ēducātōris	ēducātōrum
dative	ēducātōrī	ēducātōribus
accusative	ēducātōrem	ēducātōrēs
ablative	ēducātōre	ēducātōribus
vocative	ēducātor	ēducātōrēs

Related terms

• ēducātrīx

Verb

ēducātor

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

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)