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“doctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“doctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
doctus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
doctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
a man of considerable learning for those times: vir ut temporibus illis doctus
schooled by adversity: calamitate doctus
learned, scientific, literary men: homines docti
a man of learning; a scholar; a savant: vir or homo doctus, litteratus
many learned men; many scholars: multi viri docti, or multi et ii docti (not multi docti)
all learned men: omnes docti, quivis doctus, doctissimus quisque
no man of learning: nemo doctus
no one with any pretence to education: nemo mediocriter doctus
acquainted with the Latin language: latinis litteris or latine doctus
a good Latin scholar: benelatine doctus or sciens
a (competent, intelligent, subtle) critic: existimator (doctus, intellegens, acerrimus)
“doctus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers