English
institutor
Institutor comes from Latin īnstitūtor ‘teacher, instructor’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnstitūtor‘teacher, instructor’
- Englishearliest quotation 1683institutor
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnstitūtor‘teacher, instructor’
- Englishearliest quotation 1683institutor
Earliest quotation: 1683, William Walker, Preface: “The two great aims which every institutor of youth…”
Every English word from Latin īnstitūtor
Today it means
noun One who institutes something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin īnstitūtor / institutor