institutor

English

Alternative forms

• institutour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin īnstitūtor. Compare French instituteur. By surface analysis, institute +‎ -or.

Noun

institutor (plural institutors)

1. One who institutes something.

   institutors of civil policy

2. (obsolete) One who educates; an instructor.
   • 1683, William Walker, “Preface”, in English examples of the Latin syntaxis […] :

     The two great aims which every institutor of youth should mainly and intentionally drive at

3. (obsolete) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: institutor (es) m, institutora f

Latin

Noun

īnstitūtor m (genitive īnstitūtōris); third declension

1. founder, creator, erector, contractor
2. teacher, instructor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnstitūtor	īnstitūtōrēs
genitive	īnstitūtōris	īnstitūtōrum
dative	īnstitūtōrī	īnstitūtōribus
accusative	īnstitūtōrem	īnstitūtōrēs
ablative	īnstitūtōre	īnstitūtōribus
vocative	īnstitūtor	īnstitūtōrēs

Descendants

• → English: institutor
• → French: instituteur
  • → Dutch: instituteur
  • → Romanian: institutor

References

• “institutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "institutor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “institutor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• institutor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French instituteur.

Noun

institutor m (plural institutori)

1. teacher

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	institutor	institutorul	institutori	institutorii
genitive-dative	institutor	institutorului	institutori	institutorilor
vocative	institutorule		institutorilor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /instituˈtoɾ/ [ĩns.t̪i.t̪uˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ins‧ti‧tu‧tor

Noun

institutor m (plural institutores, feminine institutora, feminine plural institutoras)

1. (Colombia) teacher, institutor

   Synonym: maestro

Further reading

• “institutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026