different between docile vs document

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docere (“teach”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??.sa?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.s?l/, /?d??.sa?l/

Adjective

docile (comparative more docile, superlative most docile)

1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
2. Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

Synonyms

• (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachable
• (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable

Antonyms

• (yielding to control): perverse, defiant, rebellious, wilful

Derived terms

• docilely
• docility

Related terms

• docent
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

Translations

Anagrams

• cleido-, coiled, coldie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin docilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.sil/
• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

docile (plural dociles)

1. docile

Derived terms

• docilement

Further reading

• “docile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin docilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.t??i.le/

Adjective

docile (plural docili)

1. compliant, obedient, docile, meek

   Antonym: indocile

Derived terms

• docilità
• docilmente

Further reading

• docile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Adjective

docile

1. nominative neuter singular of docilis
2. accusative neuter singular of docilis
3. vocative neuter singular of docilis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation): enPR: d?'kyo?om?nt, IPA^(key): /?d?kj?m?nt/
  • (US): enPR: dä'kyo?om?nt, IPA^(key): /?d?kj?m?nt/
• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation): enPR: d?'kyo?om?nt, IPA^(key): /?d?kj?m?nt/
  • (US): enPR: dä'kyo?om?nt, IPA^(key): /?d?kj?m?nt/

Noun

document (plural documents)

1. An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
2. Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
3. (computing) A file that contains text.
4. (obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
5. (obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.

Hyponyms

• here document
• Web document

Derived terms

• document-style
• here-document

Related terms

Translations

References

• document on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

document (third-person singular simple present documents, present participle documenting, simple past and past participle documented)

1. To record in documents.

2. To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.

Translations

Derived terms

• documentation

References

• document in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /do.ku?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /du.ku?men/

Noun

document m

1. document

Related terms

• documentar

Further reading

• “document” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “document” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “document” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “document” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do?.ky?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: do?cu?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

document n (plural documenten, diminutive documentje n)

1. document

   Synonym: bewijsstuk

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dokument
• ? Indonesian: dokumen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.ky.m??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: documents

Noun

document m (plural documents)

1. document
2. (computing) file

Derived terms

• documenter

Further reading

• “document” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum. Attested from the 13th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?kymen/

Noun

document m (plural documents)

1. document

Related terms

• documentar

References

Piedmontese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duky?m??t/

Noun

document m

1. document

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French document, Italian documento, Latin documentum.

Noun

document n (plural documente)

1. document