instructus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“prepare; equip; arrange”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩːˈstruːk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈstruk.tus]

Participle

īnstrūctus (feminine īnstrūcta, neuter īnstrūctum, comparative īnstrūctior, superlative īnstrūctissimus, adverb īnstrūctē); first/second-declension participle

1. equipped, prepared
2. arranged
3. trained, skilled

   Synonyms: doctus, callidus, gnarus, sollers, peritus, cōnsultus

   Antonyms: rudis, inexpertus, imperītus, stultus, hospes, iners, ignārus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	īnstrūctus	īnstrūcta	īnstrūctum		īnstrūctī	īnstrūctae	īnstrūcta
genitive	īnstrūctī	īnstrūctae	īnstrūctī		īnstrūctōrum	īnstrūctārum	īnstrūctōrum
dative	īnstrūctō	īnstrūctae	īnstrūctō		īnstrūctīs
accusative	īnstrūctum	īnstrūctam	īnstrūctum		īnstrūctōs	īnstrūctās	īnstrūcta
ablative	īnstrūctō	īnstrūctā	īnstrūctō		īnstrūctīs
vocative	īnstrūcte	īnstrūcta	īnstrūctum		īnstrūctī	īnstrūctae	īnstrūcta

References

• “instructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “instructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "instructus", 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)
• “instructus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have received only a moderate education: a doctrina mediocriter instructum esse
    
  • a comfortably-furnished house: domus necessariis rebus instructa