doctrina

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan doctrina, a borrowing from Latin doctrīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dukˈtɾi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [dokˈtɾi.na]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

doctrina f (plural doctrines)

1. doctrine

Derived terms

• adoctrinar

Further reading

• “doctrina”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “doctrina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “doctrina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “doctrina”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Latin

Etymology

From doctor (“teacher”) +‎ -īna (feminine of -īnus).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɔkˈtriː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [dokˈtriː.na]

Noun

doctrīna f (genitive doctrīnae); first declension

1. teaching, instruction
2. learning, erudition
3. doctrine, theory
   • 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis

     An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	doctrīna	doctrīnae
genitive	doctrīnae	doctrīnārum
dative	doctrīnae	doctrīnīs
accusative	doctrīnam	doctrīnās
ablative	doctrīnā	doctrīnīs
vocative	doctrīna	doctrīnae

Derived terms

• doctrinalis

Related terms

• doceō
• docilis
• docilitās
• doctor
• doctus

Descendants

• Catalan: doctrina
• Friulian: dotrine
• Galician: doutrina
• German: Doktrin
• Italian: dottrina
• Macedonian: доктрина (doktrina)
• Old French: doctrine
  • → Dutch: doctrine
  • → English: doctrine
  • → German: Doktrin
  • Middle French: doctrine
    • French: doctrine
• Old Occitan: doctrina
• Portuguese: doutrina
• Romanian: doctrină
• Russian: доктри́на (doktrína)
• Serbo-Croatian: доктри́на, doktrína
• Sicilian: duttrina
• Spanish: doctrina

References

• “doctrina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “doctrina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "doctrina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “doctrina”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the origin, first beginnings of learning: incunabula doctrinae
    
  • to have a theoretical knowledge of a thing: ratione, doctrina (opp. usu) aliquid cognitum habere
    
  • to combine theory with practice: doctrinam ad usum adiungere
    
  • a man perfect in all branches of learning: vir omni doctrina eruditus
    
  • to be a man of great learning: doctrina abundare (De Or. 3. 16. 59)
    
  • to have received only a moderate education: a doctrina mediocriter instructum esse
    
  • sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
    
  • profound erudition: doctrina recondita
    
  • to pass as a man of great learning: magnam doctrinae speciem prae se ferre
    
  • the usual subjects taught to boys: doctrinae, quibus aetas puerilis impertiri solet (Nep. Att. 1. 2)
    
  • Pythagoras' principles were widely propagated: Pythagorae doctrina longe lateque fluxit (Tusc. 4. 1. 2)
    
  • systematic, methodical knowledge: ratio et doctrina
    

Old Occitan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin doctrīna.

Noun

doctrina f (oblique plural doctrinas, nominative singular doctrina, nominative plural doctrinas)

1. doctrine

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doɡˈtɾina/ [d̪oɣ̞ˈt̪ɾi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: doc‧tri‧na

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin doctrīna.

Noun

doctrina f (plural doctrinas)

1. teaching
2. doctrine

Derived terms

• adoctrinar

Etymology 2

Verb

doctrina

1. inflection of doctrinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “doctrina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025