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5-letter words (2 found)

TROUT,TUTOR,

4-letter words (6 found)

ROUT,TORT,TOUR,TOUT,TROT,TROU,

3-letter words (8 found)

ORT,OUR,OUT,ROT,RUT,TOR,TOT,TUT,

2-letter words (5 found)

OR,OU,TO,UR,UT,

You can make 21 words from tutor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of tutor

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Definitions and meaning of tutor

tutor

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtutɚ/
    • Homophones: tooter, Tudor
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtjuːtə/
  • Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • tutour (archaic)

Noun

tutor (plural tutors, feminine tutoress)

  1. One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
  2. (UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
  3. (UK) A homeroom
  4. (obsolete or Quebec law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
Synonyms
  • (one who teaches): preceptor
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

Verb

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.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To treat with authority or sternness.
Translations
Further reading
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “tutor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • “tutor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “tutor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of Demonic tutor, name of an early Magic: The Gathering card with this effect.

Noun

tutor (plural tutors)

  1. (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.

Verb

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

  1. (collectible card games) To fetch a card from one's deck.

Anagrams

  • Routt, Trout, trout

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tūtōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [tuˈto]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [tuˈtoɾ]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [tuˈto]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [tuˈtoɾ]

Noun

tutor m (plural tutors, feminine tutora)

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

Related terms

  • tutela
  • tutoria

References

  • “tutor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Further reading

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

Chinese

Etymology 1

From English tutor.

Pronunciation

Noun

tutor

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) tutor (one who teaches)

Etymology 2

From clipping of English tutorial.

Pronunciation

Noun

tutor

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) tutorial
    上tutor [Cantonese]  ―  soeng5 tiu6 to1 [Jyutping]  ―  to attend tutorial class

References

  • English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
  • John Gibbons (1987) “Code-mixing and code choice : a Hong Kong case study”, in Multilingual Matters (in Chinese), page 56

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtu(ː)tor/, [ˈt̪u(ː)t̪o̞r]
  • Rhymes: -utor
  • Syllabification(key): tu‧tor

Noun

tutor

  1. Alternative form of tuutori.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tutor”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • rutot, rutto, torut, turot

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtuː.tor/, [ˈt̪uːt̪ɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.tor/, [ˈt̪uːt̪or]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tūtor m (genitive tūtōris, feminine tūtrīx); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

  • tūtō

Verb

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

  1. to guard, protect, defend
    Synonyms: prōtegō, dēfendō, vindicō, salvō, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, praeservō, arceō, servō, tegō, adsum, tueor, sustineō, teneō, adimō, prohibeō, mūniō, ēripiō
    Antonyms: immineō, īnstō, obiectō
  2. to ward off, avert
Conjugation

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

Descendants
  • Catalan: tudar
  • Franco-Provençal: tuar
  • Old French: tuer (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: tudar, tuar
    • Occitan: tuar
  • Sardinian: tutare (Bitti)
  • Vulgar Latin: *adtūtāre, *extūtāre, *distūtāre (see there for further descendants)

References

  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tutari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 449

Further reading

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tutor, from Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur, from Latin tūtor, from tueor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtu.tɔr/
  • Rhymes: -utɔr
  • Syllabification: tu‧tor

Noun

tutor m pers

  1. tutor (university officer responsible for students in a particular hall)
  2. (archaic) tutor (one who teaches another in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • tutor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tūtōrem.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: tu‧tor

Noun

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)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tȗtor m (Cyrillic spelling ту̑тор)

  1. tutor
  2. guardian

Declension

References

  • “tutor” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutorem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuˈtoɾ/ [t̪uˈt̪oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: tu‧tor

Noun

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

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

Related terms

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

tutor

  1. indefinite plural of tuta

Source: wiktionary.org