different between serval vs docile

English

Etymology

From French serval, from Portuguese (lobo) cerval (“Iberian lynx”), from Latin lupus cerv?rius (literally “stag wolf”), i.e. "wolf that hunts stags", from cervus (“deer, stag”).

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /?s??v?l/
• (US): enPR: sûr?v?l, IPA^(key): /?s?v?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)v?l

Noun

serval (plural servals)

1. A medium-sized African wild cat, Leptailurus serval, formerly Felis serval.

Translations

Anagrams

• arvels, larves, lavers, ravels, revals, salver, slaver, velars, versal

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?rval]

Verb

serval

1. masculine singular past participle of servat

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin serval.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?r.v?l/
• Hyphenation: ser?val

Noun

serval m (plural servals)

1. serval, Leptailurus serval

   Synonym: woestijnlynx

Derived terms

• servalkat

Portuguese

Etymology

From French serval, from Portuguese cerval (“Iberian lynx”), from Latin lupus (“wolf”) cervarius (“pertaining to a stag”) (wolf that hunts the stag), cervus (“deer, stag”).

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /se?.?vaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /s??.?va?/
• Homophone: cerval
• Hyphenation: ser?val

Noun

serval m (plural servais)

1. serval (Leptailurus serval)

Spanish

Etymology

From French serval, from Portuguese (lobo) cerval (“Iberian lynx”), from Latin lupus cerv?rius (literally “stag wolf”), i.e. "wolf that hunts stags", from cervus (“deer, stag”).

Noun

serval m (plural servales)

1. serval

Related terms

• ciervo

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)

1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. nominative neuter singular of docilis
2. accusative neuter singular of docilis
3. vocative neuter singular of docilis