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Latin
Etymology
From doctor + -issa.
Pronunciation
Noun
doctorissa f (genitive doctorissae, masculine doctor); first declension
- (post-classical) female teacher, instructor, trainer
1597, Consiliorum Sive Responsorum D. Martini Uranii, page 150:Primo, ſi contingat dictum Michaelem decedere præfata domina doctoriſſa & illius ſorore, ac dictis octo filiis & filiabus conſobrinis catum ſuperſtitibus, ſit inter ſuperſtites huiuſmodi de iure locus ſucceſſioni in ſtirpes: an vero duntaxat in capita.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1705, Dissertatio Inauguralis De Donatione Propter Nuptias Ab Erroribus Doctorum Vindicata, page 16: […]; quæ allegata conſtitutio non facile negligenda, utrum autem illa applicationem recipiant, in hodiernis titulatis Doctoribus, qui hunc honoris titulum quomodocunque compararunt, ut uxorem divitem invenire posſint, quæ inferioris conditionis aut plebeja nata, bona ſua largitur ut doctoriſſa audiat; […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
a. 1721, Pamiętniki Krzysztofa Zawiszy, Wojewody Mińskiego. (1666 — 1721). Wydane z oryginalnego rękopismu i opatrzone przypiskami przez Juliana Bartoszewicza (in Latin), published 1862, page 84:
Declension
First-declension noun.
Synonyms