Etymology

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Today it means: One who doctors. Full definition →

English doctor ← Middle English doctour ← Anglo-Norman doctour
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*deḱ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*doḱ-éye-ti
  3. Proto-Italic*dokejō
  4. Proto-Italic*dokeō
  5. Ancient Greekδιδάσκω (didáskō)
  6. Latindoceō
  7. Latindoctor
  8. Old Frenchdoctur
  9. Anglo-Normandoctour
  10. Middle Englishdoctour
  11. Englishdoctor
  12. English todaydoctorer

From doctor + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.