How do you pronounce Doctor in Latin? [Archive] - The Well-Trained Mind Forums (aka Hive Mind)

ConnieB

11-10-2009, 10:25 AM

My daughter is taking 1st year Latin....we just learned that her teacher passed his orals and is now officially a Doctor (of Philosphy). When we meet this afternoon she'd like to greet him with Hello Doctor instead of our typical Hello/Greetings Teacher (Salvete Magistra)

The closest I could find online was medicus but I'm not clear if that's doctor or medicine and I'd hate for her to say Greetings Medicine, lol. I also found a page that talked about doctoris but made it appear that was Greek not Latin. Being that I'm new to Latin as well as my daughter I don't have a clue, lol.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

teachaheart

11-10-2009, 10:41 AM

It is my understanding that "doctor" is the appropriate term in this context. I did check that with "The New College Latin Dictionary," which confirmed my initial thought. It does make sense as being related to doctrina (doctrine, teaching) and docere (to teach).

HTH

ConnieB

11-10-2009, 12:10 PM

It is my understanding that "doctor" is the appropriate term in this context. I did check that with "The New College Latin Dictionary," which confirmed my initial thought. It does make sense as being related to doctrina (doctrine, teaching) and docere (to teach).

HTH

So it's just doctor, pronounced like English does....whoo hoo, that will make this much easier, lol. Thank you.