discipline

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dek-“(cause to) accept”
2. Latin · derived fromdisciplina“instruction”
3. Old French · derived fromdescipline
4. Middle English · inherited from[Term?]
5. English todaydiscipline

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).

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