Where does “Doktortitel” come from?
Doktortitel (German) comes from German Doktor, from Latin doctor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
Doktortitel (German): doctor's degree
Definitions
- doctor's degree
Ancestry of “Doktortitel”, step by step
Doktortitel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Doktor
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Doktor | doctor |
| 2 | Latin | doctor | teacher, instructor; catechist |
| 3 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via German titel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | titel | inflection of titeln: ## first-person singular... |