doctus, docta, doctum

Definitions for doctus

Wheelock's Latin

Adjective

1
taught, learned, skilled
English derivatives:
doctor doctorate doctrine indoctrinate

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Adjective

1
Learned, wise (b) (of words, actions). (c) (masc. as sb.).
2
(of persons, faculties, etc.) Taught by practice or experience expert. (b) (of animals).
3
(applied specially to poets and poetry); ~ae sorores and sim., the Muses.

Sentences with doctus

Latin to English

Nemo doctus umquam ... mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse.Compare No thinker has ever ... said that a change of mind was inconsistency.

Ita scriptus apud Philistus sum, et doctus homo et diligens, et aequalis tempus ille.Compare So it is written in Philistus, who is a man both of learning and research, and contemporary with those times.

Non iubet ego deploro vita, qui multus, et is doctus, saepe facio.Compare I like not to bewail life, as many, and those learned men, have often done.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 85.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 568.
Word frequencies

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "doctus, docta, doctum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified August 19, 2023. Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/doctus-docta-doctum.