promotor
English
noun
Definitions
- (academia) A full professor of a Dutch, Flanders, South African, or German university who acts as the principal supervisor of a student's doctoral research.
- (chemistry) A material that accelerates the action of a catalyst.
Etymology
Suffix from English promote (advance in rank status).
Origin
English
promote
Gloss
advance in rank status
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- copromote English
- demote English
- overpromote English
- promotability English
- promotable English
- promote English
- promoteability English
- promotee English
- promoter English
- promotest English
- promoteth English
- promotive English
- promotorless English
- repromote English
- underpromote English
- prōmōtus Latin
- promoten German
- *mew- Proto-Indo-European
- promotere Norwegian Bokmål
- promot Cebuano