tutor
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtutɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtjuːtə/
Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin tūtor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.
Alternative forms
Noun
tutor (plural tutors, feminine tutoress)
- One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
- He passed the difficult class with help from his tutor.
- (UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
- (UK) A homeroom
- (obsolete or Quebec law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
Synonyms
- (one who teaches): preceptor
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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Verb
tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)
- (transitive) To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.
- To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.
- (transitive, archaic) To treat with authority or sternness.
Translations
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “tutor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “tutor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “tutor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Etymology 2
Ellipsis of Demonic tutor, name of an early Magic: The Gathering card with this effect.
Noun
tutor (plural tutors)
- (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.
- 1998 April 5, [email protected], “tutor ideas”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2019-05-09, message-ID <<[email protected]>>:
- here are some tutor cards i thought would be interesting.
Verb
tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)
- (collectible card games) To fetch a card from one's deck.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Pronunciation
Noun
tutor m (plural tutors, feminine tutora)
Related terms
References
- “tutor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Further reading
- “tutor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Chinese
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: tiu1 taa2 / tiu1 taa4
- Yale: tīu tá / tīu tàh
- Cantonese Pinyin: tiu1 taa2 / tiu1 taa4
- Guangdong Romanization: tiu1 ta2 / tiu1 ta4
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰiːu̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/, /tʰiːu̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
tutor
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) tutor (one who teaches)
Etymology 2
From clipping of English tutorial.
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: tiu6 to1
- Yale: tiuh tō
- Cantonese Pinyin: tiu6 to1
- Guangdong Romanization: tiu6 to1
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰiːu̯²² tʰɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
tutor
References
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
- John Gibbons (1987) “Code-mixing and code choice : a Hong Kong case study”, in Multilingual Matters (in Chinese), page 56
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
tutor
- Alternative form of tuutori.
Declension
Inflection of tutor (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tutor | tutorit | |
genitive | tutorin | tutorien tutoreiden tutoreitten | |
partitive | tutoria | tutoreita tutoreja | |
illative | tutoriin | tutoreihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tutor | tutorit | |
accusative | nom. | tutor | tutorit |
gen. | tutorin | ||
genitive | tutorin | tutorien tutoreiden tutoreitten | |
partitive | tutoria | tutoreita tutoreja | |
inessive | tutorissa | tutoreissa | |
elative | tutorista | tutoreista | |
illative | tutoriin | tutoreihin | |
adessive | tutorilla | tutoreilla | |
ablative | tutorilta | tutoreilta | |
allative | tutorille | tutoreille | |
essive | tutorina | tutoreina | |
translative | tutoriksi | tutoreiksi | |
abessive | tutoritta | tutoreitta | |
instructive | — | tutorein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tutor”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtuː.tor/, [ˈt̪uːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.tor/, [ˈt̪uːt̪or]
Etymology 1
From tueor + -tor, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).
Noun
tūtor m (genitive tūtōris, feminine tūtrīx); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | tūtor | tūtōrēs |
Genitive | tūtōris | tūtōrum |
Dative | tūtōrī | tūtōribus |
Accusative | tūtōrem | tūtōrēs |
Ablative | tūtōre | tūtōribus |
Vocative | tūtor | tūtōrēs |
Descendants
Etymology 2
From tueor + -tō, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).
Alternative forms
Verb
tūtor (present infinitive tūtārī or tūtārier, perfect active tūtātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Conjugation
Conjugation of tūtor (first conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | tūtor | tūtāris, tūtāre |
tūtātur | tūtāmur | tūtāminī | tūtantur |
imperfect | tūtābar | tūtābāris, tūtābāre |
tūtābātur | tūtābāmur | tūtābāminī | tūtābantur | |
future | tūtābor | tūtāberis, tūtābere |
tūtābitur | tūtābimur | tūtābiminī | tūtābuntur | |
perfect | tūtātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | tūtātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | tūtātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | tūter | tūtēris, tūtēre |
tūtētur | tūtēmur | tūtēminī | tūtentur |
imperfect | tūtārer | tūtārēris, tūtārēre |
tūtārētur | tūtārēmur | tūtārēminī | tūtārentur | |
perfect | tūtātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | tūtātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | tūtāre | — | — | tūtāminī | — |
future | — | tūtātor | tūtātor | — | — | tūtantor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | tūtārī, tūtārier1 |
tūtātum esse | tūtātūrum esse | — | — | — | |
participles | tūtāns | tūtātus | tūtātūrus | — | — | tūtandus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
tūtandī | tūtandō | tūtandum | tūtandō | tūtātum | tūtātū |
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Descendants
- Catalan: tudar
- Franco-Provençal: tuar
- Old French: tuer (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: tudar, tuar
- Occitan: tuar
- Sardinian: tutare (Bitti)
- Vulgar Latin: *adtūtāre, *extūtāre, *distūtāre (see there for further descendants)
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tutari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 449
Further reading
- “tutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tutor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “tutor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tutor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English tutor, from Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur, from Latin tūtor, from tueor.
Pronunciation
Noun
tutor m pers
- tutor (university officer responsible for students in a particular hall)
- (archaic) tutor (one who teaches another in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- tutor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin tūtōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)
- tutor (one who teaches in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
- (law) guardian (person legally responsible for a minor or incompetent person)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tȗtor m (Cyrillic spelling ту̑тор)
Declension
References
- “tutor” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)
- guardian (person responsible for another)
- tutor (teacher)
- (horticulture) trellis
Related terms
Further reading
- “tutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Noun
tutor
- indefinite plural of tuta
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