Etymograph

English

tutorial

Tutorial comes from Latin tūtor ‘watcher, protector, defender’, and goes back to tueor.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtueor‘to look or gaze at, behold, watch, view’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtūtor‘watcher, protector, defender’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1959tutorial

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtueor‘to look or gaze at, behold, watch, view’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtūtor‘watcher, protector, defender’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1959tutorial

Earliest quotation: 1959, Iona Opie, Peter Opie: “The probability is that any verse of this nature,…”

Formed from tutor + -ial

Old French tuteur

Middle English tutour

English tutor

The story

The adjective is from tutor (noun) + -ial, ultimately from Latin tūtor (‘watcher, protector, defender’).

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *tawe-

intuition, 6 more

through Latin tueor ‘to look or gaze at, behold, watch, view’

tuition, intuitive, tutelage, 7 more

Today it means

adj Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

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

Etymograph / Latin tueor / tutorial

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