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From Latin ēducātor. By surface analysis, educate +‎ -or.

educator (plural educators)

  1. A person distinguished for their educational work, a teacher.
    • 2014 January, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review‎[1], volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:
      This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty[_sic_] years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher

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Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Latin ēducātor

From ēducō (“bring up, rear, educate, train, or produce”) + -tor (agent suffix).

ēducātor m (genitive ēducātōris, feminine ēducātrīx); third declension

  1. educator, tutor
  2. foster father

Third-declension noun.

ēducātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ēducō

Borrowed from French éducateur, from Latin ēducātor. Equivalent to educa +‎ -tor.

educator m (plural educatori, feminine equivalent educatoare)

  1. educator