docent

English

Etymology

From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”). In the meaning of a university grade, as used in some Central European countries, it is clipped version of private docent, privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊ.sənt/

• Audio (Berkshire)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.sənt/

Adjective

docent (comparative more docent, superlative most docent)

1. Instructive; that teaches.

Noun

docent (plural docents)

1. A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 1212:

     Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.

2. (chiefly US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
   • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 149:

     She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children.

   The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Smithsonian.

Related terms

• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

Translations

teacher or lecturer in university

• Armenian: դոցենտ (hy) (docʿent)
• Catalan: docent (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 講師 (zh), 讲师 (zh) (jiǎngshī)

• Danish: docent c
• Dutch: docent (nl) m
• Finnish: dosentti (fi)
• German: Dozent (de) m, Dozentin (de) f
• Hungarian: docens (hu)

• Icelandic: dósent (is) m
• Japanese: 講師 (ja) (kōshi)
• Indonesian: dosen (id)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dosent m

  Nynorsk: dosent m

• Spanish: docente (es)
• Swedish: docent (sv) c, föreläsare (sv) c

tour guide

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 講解員 (zh), 讲解员 (zh) (jiǎngjiěyuán)

• Danish: omviser c
• Finnish: opas (fi)
• Hungarian: idegenvezető (hu), tárlatvezető

• Japanese: ガイド (ja) (gaido)
• Swedish: föreläsare (sv) c, talare (sv) c, museiguide c

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin docēns.

Adjective

docent (masculine and feminine plural docents)

1. teaching

Noun

docent m or f (plural docents)

1. lecturer

Derived terms

• docència

Further reading

• “docent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “docent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “docent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “docent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Czech

Etymology

Latin doceo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdot͡sɛnt]

Noun

docent m

1. lecturer

Related terms

Related terms

• docentura
• doktor
• doktorand
• doktorant
• doktorát
• doktrína
• doktrinář
• dokument
• dokumentace
• dokumentární
• dokumentarista
• dokumentaristický
• dokumentaristika
• dokumentovat
• indoktrinace
• indoktrinovat

Further reading

• docent in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• docent in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Noun

docent c (singular definite docenten, plural indefinite docenter)

1. reader

Declension

Declension of docent

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	docent	docenten	docenter	docenterne
genitive	docents	docentens	docenters	docenternes

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Dutch

Etymology

From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːˈsɛnt/, (Netherlands) [doʊ̯ˈsɛnt], (Belgium) [doːˈsɛnt]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: do‧cent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

docent m (plural docenten, diminutive docentje n, feminine docente)

1. teacher, docent

Synonyms

• leraar
• leerkracht
• onderwijzer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dosent
• → Indonesian: dosen

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Latin

Verb

docent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of doceō

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Polish

Etymology

From Latin docēns, likely through German Dozent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.t͡sɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔt͡sɛnt
• Syllabification: do‧cent

Noun

docent m pers

1. docent, lecturer (teacher at a university)

Declension

Declension of docent

	singular	plural
nominative	docent	docenci
genitive	docenta	docentów
dative	docentowi	docentom
accusative	docenta	docentów
instrumental	docentem	docentami
locative	docencie	docentach
vocative	docencie	docenci

Derived terms

• docentura

 

Further reading

• docent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• docent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From German Dozent.

Noun

docent m (plural docenți)

1. lecturer

Declension

Declension of docent

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) docent	docentul	(niște) docenți	docenții
genitive/dative	(unui) docent	docentului	(unor) docenți	docenților
vocative	docentule		docenților

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Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

docent c

1. a docent, a university teacher who holds a PhD degree, an associate professor

Declension

Declension of docent
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	docent	docenten	docenter	docenterna
Genitive	docents	docentens	docenters	docenternas

Further reading

• docent on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv