doctorate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin doctōrātus.
Pronunciation edit
- (noun:)
- (verb:)
- Hyphenation: doc‧tor‧ate
Noun edit
doctorate (plural doctorates)
- The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.
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Translations edit
highest degree awarded by a university faculty
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Verb edit
doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)
- (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
- a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
- He was bred […] in Oxford and there doctorated.
- 1886, Simon Somerville Laurie, Lectures on the Rise and Early Constitution of Universities:
- Even after Salernum had a teacher of law [...] it could not doctorate in law.
Further reading edit
- “doctorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dok.toːˈraː.te/, [d̪ɔkt̪oːˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dok.toˈra.te/, [d̪okt̪oˈräːt̪e]
Verb edit
doctōrāte
Spanish edit
Verb edit
doctorate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of doctorar combined with te