doctus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of doceō (“I teach”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdok.tus/, [ˈd̪ɔkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdok.tus/, [ˈd̪ɔkt̪us]

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.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	doctus	docta	doctum		doctī	doctae	docta
Genitive	doctī	doctae	doctī		doctōrum	doctārum	doctōrum
Dative	doctō		doctō		doctīs
Accusative	doctum	doctam	doctum		doctōs	doctās	docta
Ablative	doctō	doctā	doctō		doctīs
Vocative	docte	docta	doctum		doctī	doctae	docta

Descendants

• Old French: doit, duit
  • French: duit (archaic or dialectal, Normandy)
• Italian: dotto
• Portuguese: douto
• Spanish: ducho
• → Catalan: docte
• → French: docte
• → Portuguese: docto
• → Romanian: doct
• → Spanish: docto
• → Welsh: doeth

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^[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)
    
• “doctus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers