English
disciplinary
Disciplinary comes from Latin disciplina ‘instruction, teaching, field of study, habit’, and goes back to discipulus ‘student, pupil, disciple, schoolboy’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdiscipulus‘student, pupil, disciple, schoolboy’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdisciplina‘instruction, teaching, field of study, habit’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500disciplinarius
- Englishearliest quotation 1988disciplinary
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdiscipulus‘student, pupil, disciple, schoolboy’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdisciplina‘instruction, teaching, field of study, habit’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500disciplinarius
- Englishearliest quotation 1988disciplinary
Earliest quotation: 1988, Jery Ragland, A Hell Of An Appeal: “During my 3 weeks upstairs they wrote 4 disciplinaries…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- ‘in two, apart’
through Proto-Italic *dis-
debate, discover, disguise, dissent, diffuse, defraud, diss, 15 more
Today it means
adj Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin discipulus / disciplinary