From Proto-Italic *enstroutos, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“prepare; equip; arrange”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩːˈstruːk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈstruk.tus]

īnstrūctus (feminine īnstrūcta, neuter īnstrūctum, comparative īnstrūctior, adverb īnstrūctē); first/second-declension participle

1. equipped, prepared
2. arranged
3. trained, skilled

   Synonyms: doctus, callidus, gnarus, sollers, peritus, cōnsultus

   Antonyms: rudis, inexpertus, imperītus, stultus, hospes, iners, ignārus

First/second-declension adjective.

• “instructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “instructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "instructus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “instructus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have received only a moderate education: a doctrina mediocriter instructum esse
    
  • a comfortably-furnished house: domus necessariis rebus instructa