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mentee

noun

Etymology

Back-formation from mentor. Although mentor comes from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr), the name of a mythological figure, it was mistakenly analyzed as terminating in the suffix -or (“doer”), leading to a form using the French patientive suffix -ee on the model of pairs such as donor–donee and employer–employee. Attested since at least 1958.

  1. derived from patientive suffix -ee on the model of pairs such as donor–donee and employer–employee
  2. derived from Μέντωρ

Definitions

  1. A person who is being mentored.

    • Near-synonyms: apprentice, buddy (in training sense), intern, pupil, student, trainee
    • The mentee occasionally teaches the class, regularly confers with students, conducts optional special study sessions, and relieves the professor of most clerical classroom functions
    • [T]he two characters form a beautiful mentor-mentee relationship in which each derives tremendous strength from the other

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA