Latin and Greek Roots of English Vocabulary: An Online Manual: Lesson 9 [doc(t)-]

January 17, 2010

Root

  

Original Meaning/

Usage Notes

 

English Derivatives

  

Vocabulary

  

(base) 

doc(t)- [from Latin]

 

(verb)

to teach

 

 

docent [literally, ‘teaching (person);’ a lecturer or tour guide at a museum or college.]

docile

doctor

doctrine [literally, ‘a teaching;’ an official body of truths, beliefs, or principles.]

document [literally, ‘a teaching lesson;’ a legal or official presentation of something for information or evidence.]

to indoctrinate [literally, ‘to put a teaching into (someone);’ to implant a point of view or body of beliefs into someone.]

 

docile (adjective) [literally, ‘teachable;’ naturally constituted to be controllable or trainable.]

 

doctor (noun) [literally, ‘teacher;’ a physician or other person trained in the science of healing; a holder of the highest academic degree.]

 

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