English → Latin
“instruct” in Latin
ērudiōto instruct, to educate; to cultivate, to refinefōrmōto shape, form, fashion, formatīnstituōto set up, establish, found, institute or arrange; to train, teach, instruct, educate (usually by a course of training);arsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemPetrōniusof or pertaining to the gens Petronia
The English word instruct itself goes back to Latin struō, through īnstrūctus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
instruct
To teach, etc., erudire: formare (denote education as an ideal good, and as a part of human improvement; erudire, generally, and as far as it frees from ignorance; formare, specially, and as far it prepares anybody in a particular sphere and for a particular purpose, and gives the mind a bent thereto): instituere (denotes education as a tangible good, in order to qualify for a particular employment): ☞ instruere = “to furnish with what is necessary,” must be used carefully: artes, etc., quibus instruimur ad usum forensem, etc., Cic.: Petronius, has instruimur juvenes praeceptis; Quint., aliquem scientiā alicujus rei.
To give directions to an agent, etc., mandare alicui (with ut, ne, etc., or relative clause): aliquem edocere, quae agat. Vid: “to give INSTRUCTIONS.” .
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for instruct?
- The usual Latin words for “instruct” are ērudiō, fōrmō, īnstituō; also ars, Petrōnius. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.