doctus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of doceō (I teach).

Pronunciation

Participle

doctus (feminine docta, neuter doctum, comparative doctior, superlative doctissimus); first/second-declension participle

  1. having been taught, instructed, trained, learned, skilled, versed, experienced in any thing
    Synonyms: gnarus, peritus, callidus, instructus, sollers, expertus, cōnsultus
    Antonyms: rudis, inexpertus, imperītus, ignārus, iners, hospes
  2. (drama) having been rehearsed, presented on stage

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

  • Old French: doit, duit
    • French: duit (archaic or dialectal, Normandy)
  • Italian: dotto
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: doito
  • Spanish: ducho
  • Borrowings:

References

  • 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: bene latine 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