different between docent vs doctrine

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

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n/
• Hyphenation: doc?trine

Noun

doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)

1. (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.

   The incarnation is a basic doctrine of classical Christianity.

   The four noble truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.

2. (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group or text.

   What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• doctrine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• doctrine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Crediton, centroid

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch doctrine, from Middle French doctrine, from Latin doctr?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?k?tri.n?/
• Hyphenation: doc?tri?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines, diminutive doctrinetje n)

1. doctrine

   Synonyms: leer, leerstuk

Derived terms

• doctrinair
• indoctrineren

French

Etymology

From Latin doctrina, diminutive from doctus, taught, perfect passive participle of docere, teach

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?k.t?in/

Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines)

1. doctrine

Further reading

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

Spanish

Verb

doctrine

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