repetitor

plural repetitors · alternative Repetitor

1. A private instructor in a repetitorium.

   Where the real difference with the tutorial likes is in the fact that the repetitor does most of the talking in class, analyses the problem and then, at the end, hands out a summary of what the model answer should be.

   2002, B. S. Markesinis, The British Contribution to the Europe of the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN, page 74

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   There is probably not a class throughout the Russian Empire, there is certainly not a gymnasium or a real-school, in which a certain proportion of the pupils do not avail themselves of the services of a repetitor ; and in the case of the lower classes of some schools every second or third pupil does so.

   1909, Great Britain Board of Education, Special Reports on Educational Subjects - Volume 23, page 368

   Carl Philipp (1762–1827), repetitor at the Stift from 1789 to 1791 and a Hellenist, he had a strong influence on Ho:lderlin there, kept in contact with him, and was one of the first to try to collect and publish his work; see Letter 51 (to his brother Karl, 2 November 1797).

   2009, Friedrich Hölderlin, Charlie Louth, Jeremy Adler, Essays and Letters, →ISBN

2. Someone or something that repeats something.

   The oral composer, as well as the repetitor, must then quite naturally be a "counter" of rhytmic shemas.

   2015, Marcel Jousse, The Oral Style (RLE Folklore), →ISBN

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   For the repetitor, its self-similarity ratio r is 1/3, identifying the subdivision of the original line into three pieces.

   1992, Robert Laurini, Derek Thompson, Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems, →ISBN, page 154

   I like to claim the lineage of reacaire, defined by Dineen as “an auctioneer, a seller, a reciter, a story teller, a gossiper, a poet's repetitor, a ranting female.”

   2008, Treasa O'Driscoll, Celtic Woman: A Memoir of Life's Poetic Journey, →ISBN

plural Repetitors

1. alternativeAlternative form of repetitor.

   During his Referendariat, one of his professors suggested that Eser do a Ph.D. He was also asked to work as a Repetitor at the Repetitorium.

   2017, Sara Rezai, “Self-made lawyers? Pathways of socially mobile descendants of migrants from Turkey in Europe”, in Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 40, number 2

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   Some Repetitors will provide protocols which are records written by students (and paid for by the Repetitor) of the questions asked in oral examinations.

   1995, Michael John Allen, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues Yearbook, page 295

   Universities teach these courses too, but almost all students also or exclusively go to private Repetitor, where they spend between €2,600 to over €4,000 for a year-long course including materials.

   2008, Thomas Lundmark, “Recent reforms to German legal education”, in The Law Teacher, volume 42