Where does “nondoctrinaire” come from?
nondoctrinaire (English) comes from English doctrinaire, from French doctrinaire, from French doctrine, from Latin doctrina, from Latin doctor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.
nondoctrinaire (English): Not doctrinaire
Definitions
- Not doctrinaire
Ancestry of “nondoctrinaire”, step by step
nondoctrinaire traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English doctrinaire
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | doctrinaire | A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or... |
| 2 | French | doctrinaire | doctrinaire; doctrinal |
| 3 | French | doctrine | doctrine |
| 4 | Latin | doctrina | teaching, instruction; doctrine; learning,... |
| 5 | Latin | doctor | teacher, instructor; catechist |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |