different between docent vs docile

English

Etymology

From Latin doc?ns, present participle of doce? (“to teach”). As some central European teachers, a clipped version of privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??.s?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?do?.s?nt/

Adjective

docent (comparative more docent, superlative most docent)

1. Instructive; that teaches.

Noun

docent (plural docents)

1. A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 1212:

     Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.

2. (chiefly US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.

Related terms

• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin doc?ns.

Adjective

docent (masculine and feminine plural docents)

1. teaching

Noun

docent m or f (plural docents)

1. lecturer

Derived terms

• docència

Further reading

• “docent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “docent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “docent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “docent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

Latin doceo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dot?s?nt]

Noun

docent m

1. lecturer

Related terms

Further reading

• docent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• docent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

docent c (singular definite docenten, plural indefinite docenter)

1. reader

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin doc?ns, present participle of doce? (“to teach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??s?nt/, (Netherlands) [do???s?nt], (Belgium) [do??s?nt]
• Hyphenation: do?cent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

docent m (plural docenten, diminutive docentje n, feminine docente)

1. teacher, docent

Synonyms

• leraar
• leerkracht
• onderwijzer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dosent
• ? Indonesian: dosen

Latin

Verb

docent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of doce?

Polish

Etymology

From Latin doc?ns, likely through German Dozent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.t?s?nt/

Noun

docent m pers

1. docent, lecturer (teacher at a university)

Declension

Derived terms

• docentura

Romanian

Etymology

From German Dozent

Noun

docent m (plural docen?i)

1. lecturer

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

docent c

1. a docent, a university teacher who holds a PhD degree, an associate professor

Declension

Further reading

• docent on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docere (“teach”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??.sa?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.s?l/, /?d??.sa?l/

Adjective

docile (comparative more docile, superlative most docile)

1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
2. Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

Synonyms

• (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachable
• (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable

Antonyms

• (yielding to control): perverse, defiant, rebellious, wilful

Derived terms

• docilely
• docility

Related terms

• docent
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

Translations

Anagrams

• cleido-, coiled, coldie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin docilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.sil/
• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

docile (plural dociles)

1. docile

Derived terms

• docilement

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin docilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.t??i.le/

Adjective

docile (plural docili)

1. compliant, obedient, docile, meek

   Antonym: indocile

Derived terms

• docilità
• docilmente

Further reading

• docile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Adjective

docile

1. nominative neuter singular of docilis
2. accusative neuter singular of docilis
3. vocative neuter singular of docilis