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
- A controlled behaviour; self-control; A specific...
Ancestry of “discipline”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | descipline | corporal punishment; massacre; ravaging;... |
| 2 | Latin | disciplina | teaching, instruction, education; training;... |
| 3 | Latin | discipulus | student, pupil, disciple, schoolboy; cadet |
| 4 | Latin | -ina | nominative feminine singular of -īnus; nominative... |
| 5 | Latin | -īnus | of or pertaining to; -ine |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -īnos | of/belonging to |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHnos | Creates adjectives of materials |
| 8 | Proto-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
- pseudo-discipline
- disciplineth
- disciplinest
- transdisciplinarian
- counterdiscipline