tutor

• tutour (archaic)

From Middle English tutour, borrowed from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin tutor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtutɚ/

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  • Homophones: tooter, Tudor
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːtə/

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

tutor (plural tutors)

1. 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.

2. (Britain) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
3. (obsolete) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
4. (trading card games) A card that allows you to search your deck for one or more other cards.

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

1. (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.

2. (trading card games) To search one's deck for one or more other cards.
3. (transitive, archaic) To treat with authority or sternness.

• “tutor” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• tutor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tutor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Routt, Trout, trout

From Latin tutor.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tuˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tuˈtoɾ/

tutor m (plural tutors, feminine tutora)

1. tutor (teacher)
2. guardian (person responsible for another)

• tutela
• tutoria

• “tutor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

tutor

1. tutor (person)

• rutot, rutto, torut, turot

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.tor/, [ˈtuː.tɔr]

From tueor +‎ -tor, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).

tūtor m (genitive tūtōris); third declension

1. watcher, protector, defender
2. guardian (of minors)
3. tutor

Third declension.

From tueor +‎ -tō, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).

tūtor (present infinitive tūtārī, perfect active tūtātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I guard, protect, defend

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.

• 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, 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

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. tutor (one who teaches in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
2. (law) guardian (person legally responsible for a minor or incompetent person)

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

• IPA^(key): /tûːtor/
• Hyphenation: tu‧tor

tȗtor m (Cyrillic spelling ту̑тор)

1. tutor
2. guardian

• “tutor” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈtoɾ/, [t̪uˈt̪oɾ]

tutor m or f (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. guardian (person responsible for another)
2. tutor (teacher)

• tutela
• tutoría

• “tutor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

tutor

1. indefinite plural of tuta