docent

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”). In the meaning of a university grade, as used in some Central European countries, it is clipped version of private docent, privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊ.sənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.sənt/

Adjective

docent (comparative more docent, superlative most docent)

1. Instructive; that teaches.

Noun

docent (plural docents)

1. A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1212:

     Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.

2. (chiefly US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.

   The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Smithsonian.

   • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 149:

     She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children.

Related terms

• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

Translations

teacher or lecturer in university

Armenian: դոցենտ (hy) (docʻent) Catalan: docent (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 講師／讲师 (zh) (jiǎngshī) Danish: docent c Dutch: docent (nl) m Finnish: dosentti (fi) German: Dozent (de) m, Dozentin (de) f Hungarian: docens (hu) Icelandic: dósent (is) m Indonesian: dosen (id) Japanese: 講師 (ja) (kōshi) Norwegian: Bokmål: dosent m Nynorsk: dosent m Spanish: docente (es) Swedish: docent (sv) c, föreläsare (sv) c Yiddish: דאָצענט (dotsent)

tour guide

Chinese: Mandarin: 講解員／讲解员 (zh) (jiǎngjiěyuán) Danish: omviser c Finnish: opas (fi) Hungarian: idegenvezető (hu), tárlatvezető (hu) Japanese: ガイド (ja) (gaido) Swedish: föreläsare (sv) c, talare (sv) c, museiguide c

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin docentem.

Adjective

docent m or f (masculine and feminine plural docents)

1. teaching

Noun

docent m or f by sense (plural docents)

1. lecturer

Derived terms

• docència

Further reading

• “docent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “docent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “docent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “docent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin docentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdot͡sɛnt]

Noun

docent m anim

1. lecturer

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	docent	docenti
genitive	docenta	docentů
dative	docentovi, docentu	docentům
accusative	docenta	docenty
vocative	docente	docenti
locative	docentovi, docentu	docentech
instrumental	docentem	docenty

Declension of docent (hard masculine animate)

Related terms

Related terms

• docentura
• doktor
• doktorand
• doktorant
• doktorát
• doktrína
• doktrinář
• dokument
• dokumentace
• dokumentární
• dokumentarista
• dokumentaristický
• dokumentaristika
• dokumentovat
• indoktrinace
• indoktrinovat

Further reading

• “docent”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “docent”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “docent”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Noun

docent c (singular definite docenten, plural indefinite docenter)

1. reader

Declension

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	docent	docenten	docenter	docenterne
genitive	docents	docentens	docenters	docenternes

Declension of docent

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːˈsɛnt/, (Netherlands) [doʊ̯ˈsɛnt], (Belgium) [doːˈsɛnt]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: do‧cent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

docent m (plural docenten, diminutive docentje n, feminine docente)

1. teacher, docent

Synonyms

• leraar
• leerkracht
• onderwijzer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dosent
• → Indonesian: dosen

Latin

Verb

docent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of doceō

Polish

Etymology

From Latin docēns, likely through German Dozent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.t͡sɛnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔt͡sɛnt
• Syllabification: do‧cent

Noun

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

docent

Wikipedia ^pl

docent m pers

1. docent, lecturer (teacher at a university)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	docent	docenci
genitive	docenta	docentów
dative	docentowi	docentom
accusative	docenta	docentów
instrumental	docentem	docentami
locative	docencie	docentach
vocative	docencie	docenci

Declension of docent

Derived terms

• docentura

 

Further reading

• docent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• docent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dozent.

Noun

docent m (plural docenți)

1. lecturer

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) docent	docentul	(niște) docenți	docenții
genitive/dative	(unui) docent	docentului	(unor) docenți	docenților
vocative	docentule		docenților

Declension of docent

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

docent c

1. a docent, a university teacher who holds a PhD degree, an associate professor

Declension

Declension of docent
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	docent	docenten	docenter	docenterna
Genitive	docents	docentens	docenters	docenternas

Further reading

• docent on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv