rehtori
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swedish rektor (“headmaster / headmistress”), ultimately from Latin rēctor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈrehtori/, [ˈre̞ht̪o̞ri]
- Rhymes: -ehtori
- Syllabification(key): reh‧to‧ri
- Hyphenation(key): reh‧to‧ri
Noun
[edit]rehtori
- rector, schoolmaster/schoolmistress, headmaster/headmistress, principal
- An honorary title of the eleventh rank granted by the President of Finland to accomplished teachers and headmasters/headmistresses.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of rehtori (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | rehtori | rehtorit | |
| genitive | rehtorin | rehtorien rehtoreiden rehtoreitten | |
| partitive | rehtoria | rehtoreita rehtoreja | |
| illative | rehtoriin | rehtoreihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | rehtori | rehtorit | |
| accusative | nom. | rehtori | rehtorit |
| gen. | rehtorin | ||
| genitive | rehtorin | rehtorien rehtoreiden rehtoreitten | |
| partitive | rehtoria | rehtoreita rehtoreja | |
| inessive | rehtorissa | rehtoreissa | |
| elative | rehtorista | rehtoreista | |
| illative | rehtoriin | rehtoreihin | |
| adessive | rehtorilla | rehtoreilla | |
| ablative | rehtorilta | rehtoreilta | |
| allative | rehtorille | rehtoreille | |
| essive | rehtorina | rehtoreina | |
| translative | rehtoriksi | rehtoreiksi | |
| abessive | rehtoritta | rehtoreitta | |
| instructive | — | rehtorein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rehtori”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
