different between doctrinal vs docent

English

Etymology

The noun form was from French doctrinal; the adjective form was perhaps from Late Latin doctr?n?lis, from doctr?na.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n?l/, /d?k?t?a?n?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n?l/, /d?k?t?a?n?l/

Adjective

doctrinal

1. Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.
2. (obsolete) Didactic.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

doctrinal (plural doctrinals)

1. A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.
   • a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, The Object and Acts of Justifying Faith

     His Teaching is not to teach you the Doctrinals of Salvation and of the Son, for he leaves that to Ministers, and to the Bible, to teach you the Doctrinals only in a doctrinal way

   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     The Doctrinal of Princes

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /dok.t?i?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /duk.t?i?nal/

Adjective

doctrinal (masculine and feminine plural doctrinals)

1. doctrinal

French

Etymology

doctrine +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?k.t?i.nal/

Adjective

doctrinal (feminine singular doctrinale, masculine plural doctrinaux, feminine plural doctrinales)

1. doctrinal

Further reading

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

Occitan

Adjective

doctrinal m (feminine singular doctrinala, masculine plural doctrinals, feminine plural doctrinalas)

1. doctrinal

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?t?i?nal/, [d?o??.t??i?nal]
• Hyphenation: doc?tri?nal

Adjective

doctrinal (plural doctrinales)

1. doctrinal

Noun

doctrinal m (plural doctrinales)

1. doctrinal

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