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Webster 1913 Edition
Tutor
Tu′tor
,Noun.
One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.
Specifically: –(a)
A treasurer; a keeper.
“Tutour of your treasure.” Piers Plowman.
(b)
(Civ. Law)
One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
(c)
A private or public teacher.
(d)
(Eng. Universities)
An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.
(e)
(Am. Colleges)
An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.
Tu′tor
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tutored
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tutoring
.] 1.
To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.
Their sons are well
tutored
by you. Shakespeare
2.
To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.
Addison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tutor
TU'TOR
,Noun.
1.
In the civil law, a guardian; one who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate.2.
One who has the care of instructing another in various branches or in any branch of human learning. Some gentlemen employ a tutor to teach in their families, others to attend a son in his travels.3.
In universities and colleges, an officer or member of some hall, who has the charge of instructing the students in the sciences and other branches of learning.In the American colleges, tutors are graduates selected by the governors or trustees, for the instruction of undergraduates of the three first years. They are usually officers of the institution, who have a share, with the president and professors, in the government of the students.
TU'TOR
,Verb.
T.
1.
To treat with authority or severity.2.
To correct.Definition 2024
tutor
tutor
English
Alternative forms
- tutour (archaic)
Noun
tutor (plural tutors)
- One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
- He passed the difficult class with help from his tutor.
- (Britain) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
- (obsolete) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
- (trading card games) A card that allows you to search your deck for one or more other cards.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
one who teaches another
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Verb
tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)
- (transitive) To instruct or teach, especially to an individual or small group.
- To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.
- (trading card games) To search your deck for one or more other cards.
Translations
to instruct or teach, especially to an individual or small group
External links
- “tutor” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
- tutor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- tutor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Noun
tutor
- tutor (person)
Declension
| Inflection of tutor (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tutor | tutorit | |
| genitive | tutorin | tutorien tutoreiden tutoreitten |
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| partitive | tutoria | tutoreita tutoreja |
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| illative | tutoriin | tutoreihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tutor | tutorit | |
| accusative | nom. | tutor | tutorit |
| gen. | tutorin | ||
| genitive | tutorin | tutorien tutoreiden tutoreitten |
|
| partitive | tutoria | tutoreita tutoreja |
|
| inessive | tutorissa | tutoreissa | |
| elative | tutorista | tutoreista | |
| illative | tutoriin | tutoreihin | |
| adessive | tutorilla | tutoreilla | |
| ablative | tutorilta | tutoreilta | |
| allative | tutorille | tutoreille | |
| essive | tutorina | tutoreina | |
| translative | tutoriksi | tutoreiksi | |
| instructive | — | tutorein | |
| abessive | tutoritta | tutoreitta | |
| comitative | — | tutoreineen | |
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtuː.tor/, [ˈtuː.tɔr]
Etymology 1
From tueor + -tor, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).
Noun
tūtor m (genitive tūtōris); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tūtor | tūtōrēs |
| genitive | tūtōris | tūtōrum |
| dative | tūtōrī | tūtōribus |
| accusative | tūtōrem | tūtōrēs |
| ablative | tūtōre | tūtōribus |
| vocative | tūtor | tūtōrēs |
Descendants
Etymology 2
From tueor + -tō, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).
Verb
tūtor (present infinitive tūtārī, perfect active tūtātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Inflection
| Conjugation of tutor (first conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | tūtor | tūtāris, tūtāre | tūtātur | tūtāmur | tūtāminī | tūtantur |
| imperfect | tūtābar | tūtābāris, tūtābāre | tūtābātur | tūtābāmur | tūtābāminī | tūtābantur | |
| future | tūtābor | tūtāberis, tūtābere | tūtābitur | tūtābimur | tūtābiminī | tūtābuntur | |
| perfect | tūtātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | tūtātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | tūtātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | tūter | tūtēris, tūtēre | tūtētur | tūtēmur | tūtēminī | tūtentur |
| imperfect | tūtārer | tūtārēris, tūtārēre | tūtārētur | tūtārēmur | tūtārēminī | tūtārentur | |
| perfect | tūtātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | tūtātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | tūtāre | — | — | tūtāminī | — |
| future | — | tūtātor | tūtātor | — | — | tūtantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | tūtārī | tūtātus esse | tūtātūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | tūtāns | tūtātus | tūtātūrus | — | — | tūtandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| tūtārī | tūtandī | tūtandō | tūtandum | tūtātum | tūtātū | ||
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
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin tutor, tutorem.
Noun
tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)
- tutor (one who teaches in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
- (law) guardian (person legally responsible for a minor or incompetent person)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tûːtor/
- Hyphenation: tu‧tor
Noun
tȗtor m (Cyrillic spelling ту̑тор)
Declension
Declension of tutor
References
- “tutor” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin tutor, tutorem.
Noun
tutor m, f (plural tutores, feminine tutora)