doctrinal

English

Etymology

The noun form was from French doctrinal; the adjective form was perhaps from Late Latin doctrīnālis, from doctrīna.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒktɹɪnəl/, /dɒkˈtɹaɪnəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑktɹɪnəl/, /dɑkˈtɹaɪnəl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnəl

Adjective

doctrinal

1. Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.
2. (obsolete) Didactic.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.

Derived terms

• counterdoctrinal
• doctrinalism
• doctrinalist
• doctrinally
• nondoctrinal
• undoctrinal

 

Related terms

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

Translations

of or relating to a doctrine

Catalan: doctrinal Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: doctrinair (nl), leerstellig Esperanto: doktrina Finnish: opillinen (fi), oppi- (fi) French: doctrinal (fr) Galician: doutrinal German: doktrinal Greek: δογματικός (el) (dogmatikós) Ido: doktrinala (io) Irish: foirceadlach, foirceadail Italian: dottrinale (it) Latin: doctrinalis Polish: doktrynalny (pl) Portuguese: doutrinal (pt), doutrinário (pt) Romanian: doctrinal Spanish: doctrinal

Noun

doctrinal (plural doctrinals)

1. A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.
   • a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, The Object and Acts of Justifying Faith:

     His Teaching is not to teach you the Doctrinals of Salvation and of the Son, for he leaves that to Ministers, and to the Bible, to teach you the Doctrinals only in a doctrinal way

   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:

     The Doctrinal of Princes

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [duk.tɾiˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [dok.tɾiˈnal]

Adjective

doctrinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural doctrinals)

1. doctrinal

French

Etymology

From doctrine +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔk.tʁi.nal/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

Adjective

doctrinal (feminine doctrinale, masculine plural doctrinaux, feminine plural doctrinales)

1. doctrinal

Further reading

• “doctrinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Occitan

Adjective

doctrinal m (feminine singular doctrinala, masculine plural doctrinals, feminine plural doctrinalas)

1. doctrinal

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French doctrinal.

Adjective

doctrinal m or n (feminine singular doctrinală, masculine plural doctrinali, feminine and neuter plural doctrinale)

1. doctrinal

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	doctrinal		doctrinală		doctrinali	doctrinale
	definite	doctrinalul		doctrinala		doctrinalii	doctrinalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	doctrinal		doctrinale		doctrinali	doctrinale
	definite	doctrinalului		doctrinalei		doctrinalilor	doctrinalelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doɡtɾiˈnal/ [d̪oɣ̞.t̪ɾiˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: doc‧tri‧nal

Adjective

doctrinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural doctrinales)

1. doctrinal

Derived terms

• doctrinalmente

 

Noun

doctrinal m (plural doctrinales)

1. doctrinal

Further reading

• “doctrinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28