mentor

Meanings

Noun

• A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

Verb

• To act as someone's mentor

Origin

• From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ ("Mentor"), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, shares the same root as English mind. Cognate to Sanskrit मन्तृ ("advisor, counselor") and Latin monitor ("one who admonishes"), and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti (compare Latin moneō, causative form of *men-).