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English word doctor comes from Latin doceo, Latin docere, and later Middle English doctour (Doctor (medical practitioner).)

doceo (Latin)

(drama) I rehearse, present on stage. I teach, instruct; tell, inform; show, demonstrate.

docere (Latin)

doctor (Latin)

(Ecclesiastical Latin) catechist. Teacher, instructor.

doctour (Anglo-Norman)

doctour (Middle English)

Doctor (medical practitioner).

doctor (English)

(intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.. (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or [...]

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