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doctores

doctores is a Latin form of doctor, meaning “learned, wise; skilled, experienced, expert; trained”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun or vocative plural masculine noun.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.56: … i numine; sive haec in errore inperitorum posita esse et fabularum similia didicimus, audiamus communis quasi doctores eruditorum hominum, qui tamquam oculis illa viderunt, quae nos vix audiendo cognoscimus. Quinam, inquit Laeli …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.9.9: Doctores quoque et interpretes vocum Graecarum: et: dictum putant, quod Latine inseque dicitur; namque in altero geminum, in altero esse tralatum dicunt.

All forms of doctor (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.