Etymograph

English

tuition

Tuition comes from Latin tuitiō ‘guard, protection, defense’, and goes back to tueor.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtueoras tuēri‘to watch, guard, see, observe’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtuitiō‘guard, protection, defense’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400tuicion
  4. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400tuycioun
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1598–1599tuition

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtueoras tuēri‘to watch, guard, see, observe’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtuitiō‘guard, protection, defense’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400tuicion
  4. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400tuycioun
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1598–1599tuition

Earliest quotation: 1598–1599, Much Adoe about Nothing: “BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for…”

Linked words

through Latin tueor ‘to watch, guard, see, observe’

tutorial, intuitive, tutelage, 7 more

Today it means

noun The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin tueor / tuition

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