Translation
teacher, instructor
Examples
cotidie .
The teacher teaches the boys every day.
Praeceptorem .
He had a good teacher.
A praeceptore didicit.
He learned a great deal from his teacher.
Praeceptoris .
We hold the teacher words in our memory.
Praeceptores discipulis .
Teachers give examples to their pupils.
Praeceptor, praeceptoris, m., is third declension, formed from praecipio, "instruct, lay down a rule". The feminine is praeceptrix. Beside magister, which is the general word for a schoolmaster or a master of anything, praeceptor leans towards the private tutor and the personal instructor - Seneca is Nero's praeceptor, not his magister.
In the medieval corpus you will almost always meet it spelled preceptor. The ae and e diphthongs collapsed in speech and scribes wrote what they heard, so praeceptor and preceptor are one word with two habits. Medieval Latin also gives it a rank: the Preceptor of a Templar or Hospitaller house is the officer in charge of a commandery, and the praeceptum he administers is a command rather than a lesson.
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