Latin 'doctor' meant 'teacher,' not healer — from 'docere' (to teach). Physicians earned the title through university degrees.
A qualified practitioner of medicine; also, a person who holds the highest university degree.
From Latin 'doctor' (teacher, instructor, one who makes someone learn), an agent noun from 'docēre' (to teach, to cause to know, to show), from PIE *deḱ- (to take, to accept, to be fitting or proper). The PIE root *deḱ- expressed the idea of receiving something as proper or right, and by extension showing or causing acceptance. Its descendants include Greek 'dokein' (to seem, to think), 'dogma' (that which one thinks or decrees
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