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erudite

See also: érudite

English

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WOTD – 14 June 2006

Etymology

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From Latin ērudītus, participle of ērudiō (“educate, train”), from e- (“out of”) + rudis (“rude, unskilled”). Doublet of erudit.

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Adjective

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erudite (comparative more erudite, superlative most erudite)

  1. Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:learned
    • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter XII, in The Scarlet Letter:
      At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
    • 1913, Edith Wharton, “Chapter 43”, in The Custom of the Country:
      Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree […] , dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
    • 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:
      THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The most erudite locomotive engineer could not fail to excavate new knowledge from this remarkably comprehensive volume, [...]
    • 2006 September 17, Jeff Israely, “Preaching Controversy”, in Time‎[1], archived from the original on 19 September 2010:
      Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.
    • 2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker‎[2]:
      Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.
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Translations

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Noun

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erudite (plural erudites)

  1. a learned or scholarly person
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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erudite f pl

  1. feminine plural of erudito

Participle

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erudite f pl

  1. feminine plural of erudito

Etymology 2

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Noun

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erudite f pl

  1. plural of erudita

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Verb

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erudite

  1. inflection of erudire:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From ērudītus (“educated, accomplished”).

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Adverb

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ērudītē (comparative ērudītius, superlative ērudītissimē)

  1. learnedly, with erudition
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Etymology 2

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Inflected forms

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Participle

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ērudīte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ērudītus

References

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  • “erudite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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