Word Origin | Dekan, Rektör, Doçent

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Dekan: dean, deacon EN [1] i. fromDE. Dekan GR to LAT Üniversitede bir fakültenin başkanı olan profesör. 

Dekanlık: 1. Dekan olma durumu. 2. Dekanın işi: “İki yıl dekanlık yaptı.” 3. Dekanın makāmı: “Dekanlığa başvurmanız gerekir.”

Rektör:  rector EN[3] 

i. (frmFR recteur fromLAT rector “yönetici, hükmedici”) Bir üniversiteyi temsil eden, eğitimin yürütülmesinden sorumlu olan, yönetimin başı durumundaki kimse.

Doçent: docent EN[4] i. (frmDE Dozent < Lat.) Üniversitelerde profesörlükten önceki kademede bulunan öğretim üyesi.

[1] dean (n.) early 14c., an ecclesiastical title, etymologically "head of a group of ten," from Old French deien (12c., Modern French doyen), from Late Latin decanus "head of a group of 10 monks in a monastery," from earlier secular meaning "commander of 10 soldiers" (which was extended to civil administrators in the late empire), from Greek dekanos, from deka "ten" (from PIE root *dekm- "ten"). It replaced Old English teoðingealdor.

deacon (n.) Middle English deken, "one who reads the Gospel in divine worship, one of a body of assistants to a priest or other clergyman," from Old English deacon, diacon, from Late Latin diaconus, from Greek diakonos "servant of the church, religious official," literally "servant," from dia- here perhaps "thoroughly, from all sides," + PIE *kon-o-, from root *ken- "to hasten, set oneself in motion." Related: Deaconess; deaconship.

archdeacon (n.) "ecclesiastic who has charge of a part of a diocese," Old English arcediacon, from Church Latin archidiaconus, from Ecclesiastical Greek arkhidiakonon "chief deacon;" see arch- + deacon. Related: Archdeaconship.

Sense of "president of a faculty or department in a university" is by 1520s (in Anglo-Latin from late 13c.). Extended meaning "oldest member in length of service in any constituted body" is from mid-15c. Related: Deanery.

[2] doyen (n.) "a dean, the senior member of a body," originally "a commander of ten," early 15c., from Old French doyen "commander of ten," from Old French deien (see dean).

[3] rector (n.) late 14c. (early 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Latin rector "ruler, governor, director, guide," from rect-, past participle stem of regere "to rule, guide" (from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," with derivatives meaning "to direct in a straight line," thus "to lead, rule"). Used originally of Roman governors and God, by 18c. generally restricted to clergymen and college heads. Related: Rectorship.

[4] docent (adj.) "teaching," 1630s, from Latin docentem (nominative docens), present participle of docere "to show, teach, cause to know," originally "make to appear right," causative of decere "be seemly, fitting," from PIE root *dek- "to take, accept."

As a noun, "lecturer or teacher (usually a post-graduate student) in a college, not on staff but permitted to teach," by 1880, from German.