2012年2月8日 · Doctor is a Latin word, and it was borrowed from Latin already formed, with a meaning, namely 'teacher'. The word is formed exactly the way teacher is: a verb root (English teach-, Latin doc-), plus; an agentive suffix (English -er, Latin -tor). Doctor was in use for many centuries before there were universities, or degrees. It was used to ...

2017年10月13日 · The meaning of doctor as a verb is related to the original noun. But from the late 18th century it develops a negative connotation: 1590s, "to confer a degree on," from doctor (n.). Meaning "to treat medically" is from 1712; sense of "alter, disguise, falsify" is from 1774. (Etymonline) To doctor:

2016年10月26日 · There are three types of ways the word "doctor" can be written, and two different circumstances/contexts they are used in. First, there's "doctor" without a capital "D". Such as "He is a doctor" or "A crowd of doctors hustled into the room". This use of the word doctor is referring to a person of that profession.

2023年12月16日 · Searching online for the origin of Doctor being used for medical professionals, the often repeated facts are: The word comes for the Latin to teach At some point medical professionals started to be called Doctor

2018年3月21日 · Collins Dictionary cites woman doctor meaning: a female doctor: A woman doctor examined me. and defines lady doctor as old-fashioned: (old-fashioned) a doctor who is a female; Not to be confused with woman's doctor. a specialist in gynecologywoman's doctor - a specialist in gynecology ; I'd personally use "female doctor".

As Bill replies, if the substance of the message is merely that you're seeing a medical professional, "I'm at the doctor's" is succinct and clear. Compare: "I'm at the chemist's." If you need to convey the exact location, or the type of medical …

2015年8月22日 · Wikipedia states on a disambiguation page that "the good doctor" is "a cliché referring to any physician." ." However, the earliest link on that page is to the Wikipedia article on Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)—while the earliest occurrence of "the good doctor" in a Google Books search is from almost a century before Johnson's

The phrase simply means placed himself in his doctor's care and does specifically refer to medical doctors, and particularly the General Practitioner who provides care as part of the National Health Service in Britain.

The adjective doctored derives from the figurative use of the verb doctor, meaning per the OED: To treat so as to alter the appearance, flavour, or character of; to disguise, falsify, tamper with, adulterate, sophisticate, ‘cook’. The first citation is from the 18 th century.

2022年2月7日 · Optometrists (Honolulu has over 40 of them) may sometimes be confused with ophthalmologists because their schools give the degree of O.D.—Optometriae Doctor, or Doctor of Optometry. However, they are not physicians. Hawaii Medical Journal and Inter-Island Nurses' Bulletin, Vol. 18 (1958) (Google Book snippet)