docteur
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdocteur m (plural docteurs, feminine docteur or (especially Canadian) docteure or (dated) doctoresse or (slang) docteuse)
- a doctor (physician)
- 1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: CLE International:
- Je suis le docteur Pipo, Pipo.
Je répare les pianos.
Piano ! Piano ! Écoute-nous !
Parle-nous ! Réponds-nous !- I am Dr. Pipo, Pipo.
I fix pianos.
Piano! Piano! Listen to us!
Talk to us! Answer us!
- I am Dr. Pipo, Pipo.
- a doctor (person who has attained a doctorate), especially a male doctor
Usage notes
editUnlike monsieur or madame, when used as a title in a sentence docteur takes the definite article: j'ai parlé avec le docteur Tremblay. In French, docteur is much less used as a title with the name of holders of academic doctorates than Doctor is in English.
Descendants
edit- → Arabic: دُكْتور (doktōr)
- → Kaba: dòktórò
- → Persian: دکتر (doktor)
- → Ottoman Turkish: دوقتور (doktor)
- → Vietnamese: đốc-tờ
See also
edit- doctorat (“doctorate”)
- doctoral
- docteur en philosophie (“Doctor of Philosophy”)
- docteur en médecine (“Doctor of Medicine”)
- médecin (“(medical) doctor, physician”)
- physicien (“physicist”)
Further reading
edit- “docteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin doctor, see doctor, doctur, etc.
Noun
editdocteur oblique singular, m (oblique plural docteurs, nominative singular docteurs, nominative plural docteur)
- doctor (medical practitioner)
Synonyms
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