Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From German Dozent, from Latin docens, from doceo (I teach).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈdot͡sɛnʃ]
  • Hyphenation: do‧cens
  • Rhymes: -ɛnʃ

Noun edit

docens (plural docensek)

  1. (education) associate professor, docent (a teacher in a higher education institution who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor)

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative docens docensek
accusative docenst docenseket
dative docensnek docenseknek
instrumental docenssel docensekkel
causal-final docensért docensekért
translative docenssé docensekké
terminative docensig docensekig
essive-formal docensként docensekként
essive-modal
inessive docensben docensekben
superessive docensen docenseken
adessive docensnél docenseknél
illative docensbe docensekbe
sublative docensre docensekre
allative docenshez docensekhez
elative docensből docensekből
delative docensről docensekről
ablative docenstől docensektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
docensé docenseké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
docenséi docensekéi
Possessive forms of docens
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. docensem docenseim
2nd person sing. docensed docenseid
3rd person sing. docense docensei
1st person plural docensünk docenseink
2nd person plural docensetek docenseitek
3rd person plural docensük docenseik

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading edit

  • docens in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • docens in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Present active participle of doceō (I teach).

Pronunciation edit

Participle edit

docēns (genitive docentis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. teaching, instructing
  2. (as substantive) doctor, instructor
  3. (drama) rehearsing, presenting on stage

Declension edit

Third-declension participle.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative docēns docentēs docentia
Genitive docentis docentium
Dative docentī docentibus
Accusative docentem docēns docentēs
docentīs
docentia
Ablative docente
docentī1
docentibus
Vocative docēns docentēs docentia

1When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants edit