docens
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Dozent, from Latin docens, from doceo (“I teach”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdot͡sɛnʃ]
- Hyphenation: do‧cens
- Rhymes: -ɛnʃ
Noun
docens (plural docensek)
- (education) associate professor, docent (a teacher in a higher education institution who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | docens | docensek |
| accusative | docenst | docenseket |
| dative | docensnek | docenseknek |
| instrumental | docenssel | docensekkel |
| causal-final | docensért | docensekért |
| translative | docenssé | docensekké |
| terminative | docensig | docensekig |
| essive-formal | docensként | docensekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | docensben | docensekben |
| superessive | docensen | docenseken |
| adessive | docensnél | docenseknél |
| illative | docensbe | docensekbe |
| sublative | docensre | docensekre |
| allative | docenshez | docensekhez |
| elative | docensből | docensekből |
| delative | docensről | docensekről |
| ablative | docenstől | docensektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | docensé | docenseké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | docenséi | docensekéi |
| Possessive forms of docens | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | docensem | docenseim |
| 2nd person sing. | docensed | docenseid |
| 3rd person sing. | docense | docensei |
| 1st person plural | docensünk | docenseink |
| 2nd person plural | docensetek | docenseitek |
| 3rd person plural | docensük | docenseik |
Derived terms
- docensi
- docensség
References
- Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading
- docens in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- docens in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of doceō (“I teach”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdo.kens/, [ˈd̪ɔkẽːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdo.t͡ʃens/, [ˈd̪ɔːt͡ʃens]
Participle
docēns (genitive docentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- teaching, instructing
- (as substantive) doctor, instructor
- (drama) rehearsing, presenting on stage
Declension
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | docēns | docentēs | docentia | ||
| Genitive | docentis | docentium | |||
| Dative | docentī | docentibus | |||
| Accusative | docentem | docēns | docentēs docentīs | docentia | |
| Ablative | docente docentī1 | docentibus | |||
| Vocative | docēns | docentēs | docentia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants
- Catalan: docent
- → Dutch: docent
- Afrikaans: dosent
- → Indonesian: dosen
- → English: docent
- Galician: docente
- → German: Dozent
- → Hungarian: docens
- → Polish: docent
- → Russian: доцент (docent)
- → Armenian: դոցենտ (docʿent)
- → Turkish: doçent
- Italian: docente
- Piedmontese: docent
- Portuguese: docente
- Romanian: docent
- Spanish: docente
- → Swedish: docent