doctus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of doceō (“I teach”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdok.tus/, [ˈd̪ɔkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdok.tus/, [ˈd̪ɔkt̪us]
Participle
[edit]doctus (feminine docta, neuter doctum, comparative doctior, superlative doctissimus); first/second-declension participle
- having been taught, instructed, trained, learned, skilled, versed, experienced in any thing
- (drama) having been rehearsed, presented on stage
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | doctus | docta | doctum | doctī | doctae | docta | |
genitive | doctī | doctae | doctī | doctōrum | doctārum | doctōrum | |
dative | doctō | doctae | doctō | doctīs | |||
accusative | doctum | doctam | doctum | doctōs | doctās | docta | |
ablative | doctō | doctā | doctō | doctīs | |||
vocative | docte | docta | doctum | doctī | doctae | docta |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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[1], 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)
- a man of considerable learning for those times: vir ut temporibus illis doctus
- “doctus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers