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instructour (obsolete)

From Latin instructor, equivalent to instruct +‎ -or.

(General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈstɹʌktɚ/

instructor (plural instructors)

One who instructs; a teacher.
- 2014 March 14, Jacqueline Taylor, “Life without tenure: how I've found fulfilment in US academia”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
  According to the National Centre for Education Statistics' most recent numbers (2012), 50% of instructors at degree-granting institutions in the US are part-time. […] Through teaching as an adjunct instructor while still a graduate student, I've had the luxury of developing my career: testing out teaching strategies, exploring innovative courses, and developing relationships with students – all while working on my dissertation.

one who instructs; a teacher

Arabic: مُعَلِّم (ar) m (muʕallim), مُعَلِّمَة f (muʕallima)
Belarusian: інстру́ктар m (instrúktar), інстру́ктарка f (instrúktarka)
Bengali: মুর্শিদ (bn) (murśid), মুয়াল্লিম (bn) (muẏallim)
Bulgarian: инстру́ктор (bg) m (instrúktor)
Catalan: instructor (ca) m
Chechen: хьехархо (ḥʳexarxo)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 教練 / 教练 (zh) (jiàoliàn)
Czech: instruktor m
Danish: instruktør c
Dutch: leermeester (nl) m, leermeesteres (nl) f, instructeur (nl) m, instructrice (nl) f
Estonian: instruktor
Finnish: opettaja (fi), kouluttaja (fi), ohjaaja (fi)
French: instructeur (fr) m, instructrice (fr) f
Galician: instrutor (gl) m
German: Ausbilder (de) m, Ausbilderin (de) f, Lehrender m, Lehrende f, Lehrer (de) m, Lehrerin (de) f, Dozent (de) m (university-level), Dozentin (de) f (university-level)
Greek: διδάσκαλος (el) m (didáskalos), διδασκάλισσα (el) f (didaskálissa), δάσκαλος (el) m (dáskalos), δασκάλα (el) f (daskála), εκπαιδευτής (el) m (ekpaideftís), εκπαιδεύτρια (el) f (ekpaidéftria)
Ancient Greek: κατηχητής m (katēkhētḗs), διδάσκαλος (didáskalos)
Hungarian: oktató (hu), tanár (hu)
Italian: istruttore (it), insegnante (it)
Japanese: インストラクター (insutorakutā), 教師 (ja) (きょうし, kyōshi)
Kalmyk: зааһач (zaağaç)
Korean: 강사(講師) (ko) (gangsa), 교사(敎師) (ko) (gyosa)
Kyrgyz: нускоочу (nuskoocu)
Latin: docens (la) m or f, praeceptor (la) m, praeceptrix f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: instruktør m, instruktrise m or f (female), instruktørinne m or f (female)
Nynorsk: instruktør m, instruktrise f (female)
Persian: آموزگار (fa) (âmuzgâr), مدرس (fa) (modarres), معلم (fa) (mo'allem)
Polish: instruktor (pl) m, instruktorka (pl) f
Portuguese: instrutor (pt) m, instrutora f, instructor m (obsolete spelling), instructora f (obsolete spelling)
Romanian: instructor (ro) m, instructoare (ro) f
Russian: инстру́ктор (ru) m (instrúktor), инстру́кторша (ru) f (instrúktorša), преподава́тель (ru) m (prepodavátelʹ), преподава́тельница (ru) f (prepodavátelʹnica), учи́тель (ru) m (učítelʹ), учи́тельница (ru) f (učítelʹnica), тре́нер (ru) m (tréner) (sports), тре́нерша (ru) f (trénerša) (sports)
Spanish: instructor (es) m, instructora (es) f
Swedish: instruktör (sv) c, instruktris (sv) c (female), handledare (sv) c, handledarinna c (female), lärare (sv) c, lärarinna (sv) c (female), utbildare c
Tagalog: dalubturo, Dtro.
Tajik: омӯзгор (tg) (omüzgor), муаллим (tg) (muallim)
Thai: อาจารย์ (th) (aa-jaan)
Ukrainian: інстру́ктор m (instrúktor), інстру́кторка f (instrúktorka)

Borrowed from Latin īnstrūctōrem.

IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ins.tɾukˈto]
IPA(key): (Valencia) [ins.tɾukˈtoɾ]

instructor (feminine instructora, masculine plural instructors, feminine plural instructores)

instructive

instructor m (plural instructors, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructores)

instructor

instruir
“instructor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
“instructor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
“instructor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “instructor”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Latin īnstrūctor

From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) + -tor.

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩːˈstruːk.tɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [inˈstruk.tor]

īnstrūctor m (genitive īnstrūctōris); third declension

Someone who arranges something; preparer.

Third-declension noun.

īnstrūctē
īnstrūctiō
īnstrūctūra
īnstrūctus
īnstrūmentum
īnstruō
Catalan: instructor
English: instructor
French: instructeur
Galician: instrutor
→ German: Instruktor
Italian: istruttore
Portuguese: instrutor
Romanian: instructor
Russian: инстру́ктор (instrúktor)
Spanish: instructor
“instructor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“instructor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"instructor", 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)
“instructor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

instructor m (plural instructores, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructoras)

pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of instrutor

Borrowed from French instructeur. Compare Russian инстру́ктор (instrúktor).

IPA(key): /inˈstruk.tor/

instructor m (plural instructori, feminine equivalent instructoare)

instructor

instructaj
instructiv
instructivitate
instrucție, instrucțiune
instrucțional
instrui
“instructor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

From Latin īnstructor.

IPA(key): /instɾuɡˈtoɾ/ [ĩns.t̪ɾuɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
Rhymes: -oɾ
Syllabification: ins‧truc‧tor

instructor m (plural instructores, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructoras)

instructor, teacher
Synonyms: monitor, maestro

instruir
“instructor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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