The story
- German · derived fromDozent
- German · derived fromPrivatdozent
- Latin · borrowed fromdocēns
- English todaydocent
From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”). In the meaning of a university grade, as used in some Central European countries, it is clipped version of private docent, privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.
Words from the same roots
GermanPrivatdozent all →
privat-docentprivatdozentprivate docent
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.