English → Latin
“tutor” in Latin
ēdūcōto lead, draw or take out, forth or away; to raise up; erectnūtrīciusthat suckles or nurses; nourishingmagistermaster, chief, head, superior, director, president, leader, commander, conductor; teacher, instructor, educator of childpaedagōguspedagogue, governordoceōto produceīnstituōto set up, establish, found, institute or arrange; to train, teach, instruct, educate (usually by a course of training);
The English word tutor itself goes back to Latin tueor, through tūtor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
tutor s.
educator (in a physical or moral respect; originally of parents; afterward also of instructors): nutricius (one who takes care of the physical training, Caes., B.C., 3, 108 and 112): magister: formator morum et magister (a teacher and moral trainer or tutor; Vid: Plin., Ep., 8, 23, 2): paedagogus (one who has the charge of a child; in Rome, a slave): custos rectorque (as tutor and governor; Vid: Plin., Ep., 3, 3, 4, adolescenti nostro... in hoc lubrico aetatis non praeceptor modo, sed custos etiam rectorque quaerendus est): educator praeceptorque (instructor and teacher; Tac., Ann., 15, 62, quite at the end). To be tutor to the young princes, educationi liberorum principis praeesse: the place of tutor to the princes, *praefectura et institutio filiorum regiorum, or filiorum principalium: to be a tutor of youth, formare vitam juventutis ac mores (after Plin., Pan., 47, 1): a private tutor, praeceptor domesticus: to keep a private tutor, praeceptorem or magistrum domi habere: to have a private tutor, *domestico praeceptore uti; domesticas disciplinas habere: to become a private tutor, *munus praeceptoris domestici suscipere: puerum suscipere regendum (after Cic., Att., 10, 6, 2): to look out for a private tutor, *praeceptorem domesticum quaerere (after Plin., Ep., 3, 3, 4).
tutor v.
docere: instituere. Vid: TEACH.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for tutor?
- The usual Latin words for “tutor” are ēdūcō, nūtrīcius, magister; also paedagōgus, doceō, īnstituō. 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.