instructus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enstroutos, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“prepare; equip; arrange”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈstruːk.tus/, [ĩːˈs̠t̪ruːkt̪ʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈstruk.tus/, [inˈst̪rukt̪us]

Participle

īnstrūctus (feminine īnstrūcta, neuter īnstrūctum, comparative īnstrūctior, adverb īnstrūctē); first/second-declension participle

equipped, prepared
arranged
trained, skilled
Synonyms: doctus, callidus, gnarus, sollers, peritus, cōnsultus
Antonyms: rudis, inexpertus, imperītus, stultus, hospes, iners, ignārus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	īnstrūctus	īnstrūcta	īnstrūctum	īnstrūctī	īnstrūctae	īnstrūcta
Genitive	īnstrūctī	īnstrūctae	īnstrūctī	īnstrūctōrum	īnstrūctārum	īnstrūctōrum
Dative	īnstrūctō	īnstrūctae	īnstrūctō	īnstrūctīs
Accusative	īnstrūctum	īnstrūctam	īnstrūctum	īnstrūctōs	īnstrūctās	īnstrūcta
Ablative	īnstrūctō	īnstrūctā	īnstrūctō	īnstrūctīs
Vocative	īnstrūcte	īnstrūcta	īnstrūctum	īnstrūctī	īnstrūctae	īnstrūcta

References

“instructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“instructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
instructus 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)
instructus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have received only a moderate education: a doctrina mediocriter instructum esse
- a comfortably-furnished house: domus necessariis rebus instructa