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docile

/ˈdɒsəl/DO-suhl
/ˈdɑsəl/DAH-suhl

Meaningteachable

Common meaning: meek and easy to manage

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√DA‘know’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 145, p. 735 · scan
  2. Latindoceō, docuī, doctum‘to teach’
  3. Frenchdocile
  4. Englishdocile‘meek and easy to manage’ · today

doc also in: doctordoctrinedocument

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin doceō ‘to teach’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry doceō, p. 605 · dictionary scan

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