- disciplinable (adj.)
- mid-15c., from discipline + -able.
- disciplinarian (n.)
- "one who enforces order," 1630s, see discipline; earlier used of Puritans who wanted to establish the Presbyterian "discipline" in England (1580s). Meaning "advocate of greater discipline" is from 1746.
- disciplinary (adj.)
- 1590s, from Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (see discipline (n.)).
- interdisciplinary (adj.)
- 1937, from inter- + disciplinary.
- multidisciplinary (adj.)
- also multi-disciplinary, 1949, from multi- + disciplinary.