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Postby William Hupy » Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:55 am

From "docere" in Latin, to teach. Docere also gave us doctor, not in the healing sense, but in the professor teaching sense. Most Europena languages use a different word to describe a healer:arzt, for instance in German.
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Re: docent

Postby Slava » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:06 am

Here in the States I've always heard this one as an exalted kind of tour guide in museums.

In Russia it's used for a kind of Assistant Professor.
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