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docent
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)
- Instructive; that teaches.
Noun
docent (plural docents)
- 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.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 1212:
- (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)
- teaching
Noun
docent m or f (plural docents)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- teacher, docent
Synonyms
- leraar
- leerkracht
- onderwijzer
Descendants
- Afrikaans: dosent
- ? Indonesian: dosen
Latin
Verb
docent
- 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
- docent, lecturer (teacher at a university)
Declension
Derived terms
- docentura
Romanian
Etymology
From German Dozent
Noun
docent m (plural docen?i)
- lecturer
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
docent c
- a docent, a university teacher who holds a PhD degree, an associate professor
Declension
Further reading
- docent on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia sv
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doctor
English
Alternative forms
- doctour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English doctor (“an expert, authority on a subject”), doctour, from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doce? (“I teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English l?ran, l?ran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English l?r?ow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English l??e (“doctor, physician”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?kt?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?kt?/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?d?kt?/, /?d?kt?/
- Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
- Hyphenation: doc?tor
Noun
doctor (plural doctors)
- A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
- If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
- A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
- A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
- A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
- (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
- one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
- (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
- the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
- the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"
- A fish, the friar skate.
- (obsolete, nautical, slang) A ship's cook.
- 1844, William Robert Wilde, Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean (page 124)
- […] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […]
- 1881, The United Service (volume 5, page 212)
- His galley is small, and, microscopic as it is, it is shared by his brother in misery, the ship's cook, he whom the crew familiarly know as the “Doctor.”
- 1844, William Robert Wilde, Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean (page 124)
Usage notes
- Doctor is capitalized when used as a title:
- Doctor Smith
- In the UK and Commonwealth a surgeon (including a dental or veterinary surgeon) is commonly addressed as Mr./Ms./Mrs. rather than Doctor, even if holding a doctor's degree.
Synonyms
- (physician): doc (informal), family doctor, general practitioner, GP (UK), medic, physician, sawbones (slang), surgeon (who undertakes surgery); see also Thesaurus:physician
- (veterinarian): vet, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon
Derived terms
See also Types of academic doctor below
Related terms
- doctrix
Descendants
Translations
Verb
doctor (third-person singular simple present doctors, present participle doctoring, simple past and past participle doctored)
- (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
- Her children doctored her back to health.
- (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
- 2017, "Do No Harm", season 8, episode 2 of Adventure Time
- Doctor Princess: Put this on. [gives her lab coat to Finn] OK, you're a doctor now. Good luck.
- Finn: Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! I don't know how to doctor!
- 2017, "Do No Harm", season 8, episode 2 of Adventure Time
- (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
- (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
- They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
- We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
- (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
- Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
- (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
- To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To take medicine.
Translations
See also
- doctorand
- Wikipedia article on doctorates
- surgeon
Asturian
Noun
doctor m (plural doctores)
- doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin doctor.
Noun
doctor m (plural doctors, feminine doctora)
- doctor
Related terms
- doctoral
- doctorat
Further reading
- “doctor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “doctor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “doctor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “doctor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch doctor, from Latin doctor (“teacher, instructor”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?k.t?r/
- Hyphenation: doc?tor
- Rhymes: -?kt?r
Noun
doctor m (plural doctoren or doctors, diminutive doctortje n)
- doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)
Synonyms
- dr.
Related terms
- doctorandus
Descendants
- Afrikaans: doktor
- ? Indonesian: doktor
See also
- dokter
Latin
Etymology
From doce? (“I teach”) +? -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?dok.tor/, [?d??kt??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?dok.tor/, [?d??kt??r]
Noun
doctor m (genitive doct?ris, feminine doctr?x or doctorissa); third declension
- teacher, instructor
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) catechist
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- doct?r? (Mediaeval)
- doctr?na
Related terms
Descendants
- Borrowed terms
References
- doctor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- doctor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- doctor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- doctor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- doctor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian
Alternative forms
- doftor (popular)
- ?????? (post-1930s (Moldavian) Cyrillic spelling)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin doctor (17th c.), via French docteur or German Doktor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ ?dok.tor ]
Noun
doctor m (plural doctori, feminine equivalent doctori?? or (nonstandard) doctor?)
- doctor
Declension
See also
- medic
Spanish
Alternative forms
- Dr., dostor, dotor
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin doctor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do??to?/, [d?o???t?o?]
Noun
doctor m (plural doctores, feminine doctora, feminine plural doctoras)
- doctor (Ph.D.)
- physician
- Synonym: médico
Related terms
- doctorado
- doctorante
Descendants
- ? Tagalog: doktor
- ? Yaqui: takter
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