different between authority vs discipline

English

Alternative forms

• authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???t???ti/
• Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)

1. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
3. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
   • 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman

     To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

   New York Port Authority

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• have something on good authority

References

• authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), from discere (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?.s?.pl?n/

Noun

discipline (countable and uncountable, plural disciplines)

1. A controlled behaviour; self-control.
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation

     The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

   1. An enforced compliance or control.
   2. A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
      • 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated

        Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.

      • 1973, Bible (New International Version), Hebrews 12:7:

        Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?

   3. A state of order based on submission to authority.

      • Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.

   4. A set of rules regulating behaviour.
   5. A punishment to train or maintain control.

      • giving her the discipline of the strap

      1. (Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.
      2. A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
2. A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
   1. A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

Synonyms

• (branch or category): field, sphere
• (punishment): penalty, sanction

Antonyms

• (controlled behaviour et al.): spontaneity

Derived terms

• academic discipline

Related terms

• disciple
• disciplinal
• disciplinarian
• disciplinary
• discipliner
• interdisciplinary
• multidisciplinary

See also

• castigation
• stricture

Translations

Verb

discipline (third-person singular simple present disciplines, present participle disciplining, simple past and past participle disciplined)

1. (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
2. (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
3. (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
4. (transitive) To impose order on someone.

Synonyms

• drill

Related terms

• disciplined
• disciplinable
• disciplinarian

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch discipline, from Old French discipline, from Latin discipl?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.si?pli.n?/, /?d?.si?pli.n?/
• Hyphenation: dis?ci?pli?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

discipline f (plural disciplines, diminutive disciplinetje n)

1. discipline, self-control

   Synonyms: zelfbeheersing, zelfcontrole

2. discipline, regime of forcing compliance
3. discipline, sanction

   Synonym: tucht

4. discipline, branch

   Synonym: tak

Derived terms

• disciplinair
• disciplineren
• kadaverdiscipline
• kerndiscipline
• onderzoeksdiscipline
• sportdiscipline

Related terms

• discipel
• ongedisciplineerd

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dissipline
• ? Indonesian: disiplin

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.si.plin/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin discipl?na.

Noun

discipline f (plural disciplines)

1. discipline, sanction
2. discipline, self-control
3. discipline, branch

Derived terms

• disciplinaire
• discipliner

Related terms

• disciple

Descendants

• ? Turkish: disiplin

Etymology 2

Verb

discipline

1. first-person singular present indicative of discipliner
2. third-person singular present indicative of discipliner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of discipliner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of discipliner
5. second-person singular imperative of discipliner

Further reading

• “discipline” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

discipline f pl

1. plural of disciplina

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?di.si.?pli.ni/

Verb

discipline

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of disciplinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of disciplinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of disciplinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of disciplinar

Spanish

Verb

discipline

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of disciplinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of disciplinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of disciplinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of disciplinar.