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Webster 1913 Edition
Institutor
In′sti-tuˊtor
,Noun.
[L.: cf. F.
instituteur
.] 1.
One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes.
2.
One who educates; an instructor.
[Obs.]
Walker.
3.
(Episcopal Church)
A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
Webster 1828 Edition
Institutor
IN'STITUTOR
,Noun.
1.
The person who founds an order, sect, society or scheme for the promotion of a public or social object.2.
An instructor; one who educates; as an institutor of youth.Definition 2024
institutor
institutor
English
Alternative forms
- institutour (obsolete)
Noun
institutor (plural institutors)
- One who institutes something.
- institutors of civil policy
- (obsolete) One who educates; an instructor.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Walker to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
Latin
Noun
īnstitūtor m (genitive īnstitūtōris); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | īnstitūtor | īnstitūtōrēs |
| genitive | īnstitūtōris | īnstitūtōrum |
| dative | īnstitūtōrī | īnstitūtōribus |
| accusative | īnstitūtōrem | īnstitūtōrēs |
| ablative | īnstitūtōre | īnstitūtōribus |
| vocative | īnstitūtor | īnstitūtōrēs |
References
- institutor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- INSTITUTOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “institutor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- institutor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016