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docile
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)
- Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- nominative neuter singular of docilis
- accusative neuter singular of docilis
- vocative neuter singular of docilis
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doctrine
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)
- (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.
- (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)
- 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)
- doctrine
Further reading
- “doctrine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Verb
doctrine
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of doctrinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of doctrinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of doctrinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of doctrinar.
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