preceptor

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)

Etymology

From Middle English preceptor, preceptur, from Latin praeceptor (“commander; instructor”), from the verb praecipiō + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from prae- (“pre-, fore-: before”) + capiō (“to take; to get, to take in, to understand”).

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