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Where does “discipline” come from?

Discipline comes from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina meaning instruction or training, derived from discipulus meaning learner, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning to take or accept.

discipline (English): A controlled behaviour; self-control; A specific...

Definitions

  1. A controlled behaviour; self-control; A specific...

Ancestry of “discipline”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchdesciplinecorporal punishment; massacre; ravaging;...
2Latindisciplinateaching, instruction, education; training;...
3Latindiscipulusstudent, pupil, disciple, schoolboy; cadet
4Latin-inanominative feminine singular of -īnus; nominative...
5Latin-īnus—
6Proto-Italic-īnosof/belonging to
7Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
8Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix

Words derived from “discipline”

  • disciplinarian
  • subdiscipline
  • disciplinable
  • multidiscipline
  • disciplinal
  • discipliner
  • undiscipline
  • antidiscipline
  • undisciplinable
  • nondiscipline
  • indisciplinable
  • multidisciplinarian
  • rediscipline
  • superdiscipline
  • disple
  • disciplineless
  • disciplinability
  • pseudodiscipline
  • self-discipline
  • disciplinest
  • multidisciplinarianism
  • pseudo-discipline
  • disciplineth
  • disciplinableness
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