erudite
See also: érudite
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ērudītus, participle of ērudiō (“educate, train”), from e- (“out of”) + rudis (“rude, unskilled”). Doublet of erudit.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ʊ.daɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.(j)u.daɪt/, /ˈɛɹ.(j)ə.daɪt/
Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
editerudite (comparative more erudite, superlative most erudite)
- 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.
Related terms
editTranslations
editscholarly, learned
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Noun
editerudite (plural erudites)
- a learned or scholarly person
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Italian
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editerudite f pl
Participle
editerudite f pl
Etymology 2
editNoun
editerudite f pl
Etymology 3
editVerb
editerudite
- inflection of erudire:
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology 1
editFrom ērudītus (“educated, accomplished”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eː.ruˈdiː.teː/, [eːrʊˈd̪iːt̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.ruˈdi.te/, [eruˈd̪iːt̪e]
Adverb
editērudītē (comparative ērudītius, superlative ērudītissimē)
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editInflected forms
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eː.ruˈdiː.te/, [eːrʊˈd̪iːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.ruˈdi.te/, [eruˈd̪iːt̪e]
Participle
editērudīte
References
edit- “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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