doctrinalis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éye-ti

Proto-Italic *dokejō

Proto-Italic *dokeō

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Ancient Greek διδάσκω (didáskō)sl.

Latin doceō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin doctor

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnusnom.

Latin -īna

Latin doctrīna

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin doctrīnālis

From doctrīna (“teaching, learning, doctrine”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɔk.triːˈnaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [dok.triˈnaː.lis]

Adjective

doctrīnālis (neuter doctrīnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. theoretical
2. doctrinal

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	doctrīnālis	doctrīnāle		doctrīnālēs	doctrīnālia
genitive	doctrīnālis			doctrīnālium
dative	doctrīnālī			doctrīnālibus
accusative	doctrīnālem	doctrīnāle		doctrīnālīs doctrīnālēs	doctrīnālia
ablative	doctrīnālī			doctrīnālibus
vocative	doctrīnālis	doctrīnāle		doctrīnālēs	doctrīnālia

Descendants

• Catalan: doctrinal
• English: doctrinal
• French: doctrinal
• Italian: dottrinale
• Portuguese: doutrinal
• Romanian: doctrinal
• Spanish: doctrinal

References

• “doctrinalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “doctrinalis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.