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DISCIPLINE
Definition of DISCIPLINE
noun
A controlled behaviour; self-control.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,895)
How it is built
Same root, DISCIPLINE · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DISCIPLINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 169, 5 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DISCIPLINE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEIIILNPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start DISCIP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DISCIPLINE?
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