repetitor

• Repetitor

Compare Latin repetitor (“a reclaimer”).

repetitor (plural repetitors)

1. A private instructor in a repetitorium.
   • 1909, Great Britain Board of Education, Special Reports on Educational Subjects - Volume 23, page 368:

     There is probably not a class throughout the Russian Empire, there is certainly not a gymnasium or a real-school, in which a certain proportion of the pupils do not avail themselves of the services of a repetitor ; and in the case of the lower classes of some schools every second or third pupil does so.

   • 2002, B. S. Markesinis, The British Contribution to the Europe of the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN, page 74:

     Where the real difference with the tutorial likes is in the fact that the repetitor does most of the talking in class, analyses the problem and then, at the end, hands out a summary of what the model answer should be.

   • 2009, Friedrich Hölderlin, ‎Charlie Louth, & ‎Jeremy Adler, Essays and Letters, →ISBN:

     Carl Philipp (1762–1827), repetitor at the Stift from 1789 to 1791 and a Hellenist, he had a strong influence on Ho:lderlin there, kept in contact with him, and was one of the first to try to collect and publish his work; see Letter 51 (to his brother Karl, 2 November 1797).

2. Someone or something that repeats something.
   • 1992, Robert Laurini, & ‎Derek Thompson, Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems, →ISBN, page 154:

     For the repetitor, its self-similarity ratio r is 1/3, identifying the subdivision of the original line into three pieces.

   • 2008, Treasa O'Driscoll, Celtic Woman: A Memoir of Life's Poetic Journey, →ISBN:

     I like to claim the lineage of reacaire, defined by Dineen as “an auctioneer, a seller, a reciter, a story teller, a gossiper, a poet's repetitor, a ranting female.”

   • 2015, Marcel Jousse, The Oral Style (RLE Folklore), →ISBN:

     The oral composer, as well as the repetitor, must then quite naturally be a "counter" of rhytmic shemas.

Latin repetitor, from Latin repetere - to repeat.

repetitor

1. a private tutor.

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

repetitor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of repetō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of repetō

• repetitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• repetitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

From repetírati.

• IPA^(key): /repětiːtor/
• Hyphenation: re‧pe‧ti‧tor

repètītor m (Cyrillic spelling репѐтӣтор)

1. repeater

• “repetitor” in Hrvatski jezični portal