English → Latin
“doctor” in Latin
doctorteacher, instructor; catechist, Doctor of the Churchmūnusa service, office, employment; a burden, duty, obligation; a service, favordignitāsworth, worthiness, merit, desert; fitness, suitability; rank, status, standing, esteem, dignitymedicīnusOf or pertaining to doctors and healing; medical, medicinalcūrōto arrange, see to, attend to, take care of, look after, ensure, tend to; to heal, cure; to govern, command, preside ove
The English word doctor itself goes back to Latin doceō, through doctor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
doctor
Physician; Vid:
As academical degree, doctor. A doctors degree, *doctoris honores, munus, dignitas. To take a doctor’s degree, *amplissimum doctoris gradum adipisci; *ad amplissimum doctoris gradum promoveri; *in doctorum ordinem ascribi; doctoris nomine insigniri (K.): to be going to take (or to apply for) a doctor’s degree, *summos doctoris honores petere: to take the degree of doctor of laws with great credit, magna cum laude gradum doctoris juris adipisci (Wyttenback). A doctor of divinity, law, medicine, philosophy, doctoris theologiae, utriusque juris, medicinae, philosophiae.
doctor v.
dare, praebere alicui medicamentum: curare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for doctor?
- The usual Latin words for “doctor” are doctor, mūnus, dignitās; also medicīnus, cūrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.