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“preceptors”
1. A teacher or an instructor, especially at a university or college: Mr. Mark Stevens was a preceptor of biology at the educational institution that Tom was attending.
2. Etymology: from Latin pracceptor from praccept, "warned, instructed" from the verb praccipere, "to give rules to, to order, to teach"; from prae-, "before" + capere "to take."
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2. Etymology: from Latin pracceptor from praccept, "warned, instructed" from the verb praccipere, "to give rules to, to order, to teach"; from prae-, "before" + capere "to take."
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This entry is located in the following units:
cap-, cip-, capt-, cept-, ceive, -ceipt, -ceit, -cipient
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pre-, prae-
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