instrutor

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• instructor (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *ster-

Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *strew-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *stréweti

Proto-Italic *strowō

Latin struō

Latin īnstruō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin īnstructōremlbor.

Portuguese instrutor

Learned borrowing from Latin īnstructōrem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩs.tɾuˈtoʁ/ [ĩs.tɾuˈtoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩs.tɾuˈtoʁ/ [ĩs.tɾuˈtoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ĩs.tɾuˈtoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩʃ.tɾuˈtoʁ/ [ĩʃ.tɾuˈtoχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ĩs.tɾuˈtoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩʃ.tɾuˈtoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩʃ.tɾuˈtoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩʃ.tɾuˈto.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: ins‧tru‧tor

Noun

instrutor m (plural instrutores, feminine instrutora, feminine plural instrutoras)

1. instructor, teacher

Adjective

instrutor (feminine instrutora, masculine plural instrutores, feminine plural instrutoras)

1. instructing, teaching

Further reading

• “instrutor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026