mentore

mentor

noun men-TOH-reh Rare

Origin: Greek Mentor, the adviser of Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey

Also means

trusted adviser

Usage Note

Mentore is both masculine and feminine in Italian (un mentore, una mentore), though the seed marks it feminine — in practice it defaults to masculine as a loanword. The plural is mentori. It refers to a wise, experienced person who guides a less experienced one, directly from the Homeric figure Mentor. The English loanword 'mentor' has also entered modern Italian unchanged in informal use.

Examples

"Il giovane trovò un mentore prezioso nel suo capo."

Natural Translation

The young man found a valuable mentor in his boss.

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