different between sergeant vs instructor

English

Alternative forms

• serjant (obsolete)
• sergeaunt (obsolete)
• serjeant (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sergeant, sergeaunt, serjent, serjaunt, serjawnt, sergant, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem, accusative of serviens (“a servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin servi?ns (“serving”), present participle of servi? (“serve, be a slave to”). Doublet of servant and servient.

The fish is so called because of its stripes, supposed to resemble a sergeant's insignia of rank.

For the "er" being pronounced /??/, see also clerk, derby, varsity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??.d??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??.d??nt/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d??nt

Noun

sergeant (plural sergeants)

1. (military) UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
2. The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
3. (law, historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
4. (Britain, historical) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.

5. A fish, the cobia.
6. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants.
7. A bailiff.
8. A servant in monastic offices.

Related terms

• sergeant baker
• sarge

Translations

Anagrams

• angerest, enragest, estrange, grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, rentages, reägents, seargent, segreant, sternage

Dutch

Alternative forms

• sergant (obsolete)
• sergent (obsolete)
• serjant (obsolete)
• sersjant (archaic, informal)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch seriant, from Old French sergent, from Latin servi?ns. The current spelling is influenced by English sergeant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?r???nt/
• Hyphenation: ser?geant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

sergeant m (plural sergeants or sergeanten, diminutive sergeantje n)

1. sergeant (non-commissioned officer in several armed forces)

Usage notes

This rank is in use in the Dutch army, navy and air force, in the Belgian army and air force and in the Surinamese army.

Derived terms

• sergeant-majoor

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sersant
• ? Indonesian: sersan
• ? West Frisian: sersjant

See also

• meester
• wachtmeester

English

Alternative forms

• instructour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin instructor.

Noun

instructor (plural instructors)

1. One who instructs; a teacher.

Synonyms

• instructer (much less common)

Hyponyms

• instructress (female, dated)
• instructrix (female, dated)

Related terms

• instruct

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin instructor.

Adjective

instructor (feminine instructora, masculine plural instructors, feminine plural instructores)

1. instructive

Noun

instructor m (plural instructors, feminine instructora)

1. instructor

Related terms

• instruir

Further reading

• “instructor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “instructor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “instructor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “instructor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From ?nstru? (“build, construct; arrange”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in?stru?k.tor/, [???s?(t?)?u?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in?struk.tor/, [in?st??ukt??r]

Noun

?nstr?ctor m (genitive ?nstr?ct?ris); third declension

1. Someone who arranges something; preparer.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: instructor
• English: instructor
• French: instructeur
• Galician: instrutor
• ? German: Instruktor
• Italian: istruttore
• Portuguese: instrutor
• Russian: ??????????? (instrúktor)
• Spanish: instructor

References

• instructor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• instructor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• instructor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• instructor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Noun

instructor m (plural instructores, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructoras)

1. Obsolete spelling of instrutor (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French instructeur. Compare Russian ??????????? (instrúktor).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?struk.tor/

Noun

instructor m (plural instructori, feminine equivalent instructoare)

1. instructor

Declension

Related terms

• instructaj
• instructiv
• instructivitate
• instruc?ie, instruc?iune
• instruc?ional

See also

• instrui

References

• instructor in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin instructor.

Noun

instructor m (plural instructores, feminine instructora, feminine plural instructoras)

1. instructor, teacher

Related terms

• instruir

Further reading

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