instructor

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

one who instructs; a teacher

• Bulgarian: инструктор (bg) m (instruktor)
• Catalan: instructor (ca) m
• Chechen: хьехархо (ḥʳexarxo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教練／教练 (zh) (jiàoliàn), 教练 (zh) (jiàoliàn)

• Czech: instruktor m
• Dutch: leermeester (nl) m, leermeesteres f, instructeur (nl) m, instructrice (nl) f
• Estonian: instruktor
• Finnish: opettaja (fi), kouluttaja (fi), ohjaaja (fi)
• French: instructeur (fr) m, instructrice (fr) f
• Galician: instrutor (gl) m
• German: Ausbilder (de) m, Ausbilderin (de) f, Lehrender m, Lehrende f, Lehrer (de) m, Lehrerin (de) f, Dozent (de) m (university-level), Dozentin (de) f (university-level)
• Greek: διδάσκαλος (el) m (didáskalos), διδασκάλισσα (el) f (didaskálissa), δάσκαλος (el) m (dáskalos), δασκάλα (el) f (daskála), εκπαιδευτής (el) m (ekpaideftís), εκπαιδεύτρια (el) f (ekpaidéftria)

  Ancient: κατηχητής m (katēkhētḗs), διδάσκαλος (didáskalos)

• Hungarian: oktató (hu), tanár (hu)
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• Japanese: インストラクター (insutorakutā), 教師 (ja) (きょうし, kyōshi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: instruktør m, instruktrise m or f (female), instruktørinne m or f (female)

  Nynorsk: instruktør m, instruktrise f (female)

• Portuguese: instrutor (pt) m, instrutora f, instructor m (obsolete spelling), instructora f (obsolete spelling)
• Romanian: instructor (ro) m, instructoare (ro) f
• Russian: инстру́ктор (ru) m (instrúktor), инстру́кторша (ru) f (instrúktorša), преподава́тель (ru) m (prepodavátelʹ), преподава́тельница (ru) f (prepodavátelʹnica), учи́тель (ru) m (učítelʹ), учи́тельница (ru) f (učítelʹnica), тре́нер (ru) m (tréner) (sports), тре́нерша (ru) f (trénerša) (sports)
• Spanish: instructor (es) m, instructora f
• Swedish: instruktör (sv) c, instruktris (sv) c (female), handledare (sv) c, handledarinna c (female), lärare (sv) c, lärarinna (sv) c (female), utbildare c
• Tagalog: dalubturo, Dtro.
• Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)

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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, 2024
• “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.

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Latin

Etymology

From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈstruːk.tor/, [ĩːˈs̠t̪ruːkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈstruk.tor/, [inˈst̪rukt̪or]

Noun

īnstrūctor m (genitive īnstrūctōris); third declension

1. Someone who arranges something; preparer.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnstrūctor	īnstrūctōrēs
Genitive	īnstrūctōris	īnstrūctōrum
Dative	īnstrūctōrī	īnstrūctōribus
Accusative	īnstrūctōrem	īnstrūctōrēs
Ablative	īnstrūctōre	īnstrūctōribus
Vocative	īnstrūctor	īnstrūctōrēs

Related terms

• īnstrūctē
• īnstrūctiō
• īnstrūctūra

• īnstrūctus
• īnstrūmentum
• īnstruō

Descendants

• Catalan: instructor
• English: instructor
• French: instructeur
• Galician: instrutor
• → German: Instruktor
• Italian: istruttore
• Portuguese: instrutor
• Russian: инстру́ктор (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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• instructor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Noun

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

1. Template:pt-obsolete-silent-letter-1911

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Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈstruk.tor/

Noun

instructor m (plural instructori, feminine equivalent instructoare)

1. instructor

Declension

Declension of instructor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) instructor	instructorul	(niște) instructori	instructorii
genitive/dative	(unui) instructor	instructorului	(unor) instructori	instructorilor
vocative	instructorule		instructorilor

Related terms

• instructaj
• instructiv
• instructivitate
• instrucție, instrucțiune
• instrucțional

See also

• instrui

References

• instructor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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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