different between docent vs nocent

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 nocent (“guilty”), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“to harm”).

Adjective

nocent (comparative more nocent, superlative most nocent)

1. (rare) Causing injury; harmful.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, lines 180-187,^[1]

     […] [Satan] held on

     His midnight search, where soonest he might finde

     The Serpent: him fast sleeping soon he found

     In Labyrinth of many a round self-rowld,

     His head the midst, well stor’d with suttle wiles:

     Not yet in horrid Shade or dismal Den,

     Nor nocent yet, but on the grassie Herbe

     Fearless unfeard he slept […]

   • 1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind, Part I, Chapter 19, London: James Brackstone, pp. 313-314,^[2]

     They consider the various known Effects of particular Herbs or Drugs, they meditate what will be the Effect of their Composition, and whether the Virtues of the one will exalt or diminish the Force of the other, or correct any of its nocent Qualities.

2. (obsolete) guilty; not innocent
   • 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, London, 1641, “King John,” p. 330,^[3]

     Nocent, not innocent he is, that seeketh to deface,

     By word the thing, that he by deed hat taught men to imbrace;

     Which being now a Bishop old, doth study to destroy

     The thing, which he a young man once did covet to injoy.

   • 1571, Richard Edwards, Damon and Pythias,

     He is not innocent, whom the kinge iudgeth nocent.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:harmful

Noun

nocent (plural nocents)

1. (obsolete) Guilty person.
   • 1649, Anthony Ascham, Of the Confusions and Revolutions of Goverments, Part 3, Chapter 4, p. 190,^[4]

     […] there is no reason that the innocents and nocents sufferings should be alike, for then punishments would not be so effectuall to terrifie others, nor to give future security to innocence.

   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 32,^[5]

     […] no nocent is absolved by the verdict of himself.

Antonyms

• innocent

Latin

Verb

nocent

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