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English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin doctorandus.

Noun

doctorand (plural doctorands)

1. A postgraduate aiming to receive a doctorate; a Ph.D. student.

Translations

See also

• doctorandus

Romanian

Etymology

From German Doktorand

Noun

doctorand m (plural doctoranzi)

1. a Ph.D. student

Declension

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)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
4. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
5. (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

6. (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"
7. A fish, the friar skate.
8. (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.”

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)

1. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.

   Her children doctored her back to health.

2. (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!

3. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
4. (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.

5. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.

   Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.

6. (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.

7. (intransitive, obsolete) To take medicine.

Translations

See also

• doctorand
• Wikipedia article on doctorates
• surgeon

Asturian

Noun

doctor m (plural doctores)

1. doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin doctor.

Noun

doctor m (plural doctors, feminine doctora)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. teacher, instructor
2. (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?)

1. 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)

1. doctor (Ph.D.)
2. physician

   Synonym: médico

Related terms

• doctorado
• doctorante

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: doktor
• ? Yaqui: takter