doctus

Perfect passive participle of doceō (“I teach”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdok.tus/, [ˈdɔk.tʊs]

doctus m (feminine docta, neuter doctum); first/second declension

1. having been taught, instructed
2. (drama) having been rehearsed, presented on stage

First/second declension.

• Catalan: docte
• French: docte
• Italian: dotto
• Portuguese: docto, douto
• Spanish: docto, ducho

• doctus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• doctus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• doctus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• doctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man of considerable learning for those times: vir ut temporibus illis doctus
    
  • schooled by adversity: calamitate doctus
    
  • learned, scientific, literary men: homines docti
    
  • a man of learning; a scholar; a savant: vir or homo doctus, litteratus
    
  • many learned men; many scholars: multi viri docti, or multi et ii docti (not multi docti)
    
  • all learned men: omnes docti, quivis doctus, doctissimus quisque
    
  • no man of learning: nemo doctus
    
  • no one with any pretence to education: nemo mediocriter doctus
    
  • acquainted with the Latin language: latinis litteris or latine doctus
    
  • a good Latin scholar: bene latine doctus or sciens
    
  • a (competent, intelligent, subtle) critic: existimator (doctus, intellegens, acerrimus)
    
• doctus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers