erudit

English

Etymology

From French érudit.

Noun

erudit (plural erudits)

1. (rare) An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.
   • 1793, Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, vol. II:

     When the fragments of Petronius made a great noise in the literary world, Meibomius, an erudit of Lubeck, read in a letter from another learned scholar of Bologna, ' We have here an entire Petronius [...].’

   • 1987, Michael Kammen, Selvages and Biases, p. 93:

     By contrast, however, we have a charming letter from Charles Beard in which he regrets that he never met Lord Acton, an érudit with an encyclopedic mind who published very little.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 262:

     One of the striking features of the political battles of the 1750s had been the way in which parlementary critics – and most notably the Jansenist érudit Le Paige – had [...] provided more convincing accounts of national history than the crown was able to mount.

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Latin

Verb

ērudit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ērudiō

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /erǔdiːt/
• Hyphenation: e‧ru‧dit

Noun

erùdīt m (Cyrillic spelling еру̀дӣт)

1. erudite

Declension

    declension of erudit

	singular	plural
nominative	erùdīt	eruditi
genitive	erudíta	erudita
dative	eruditu	eruditima
accusative	erudita	erudite
vocative	erudite	eruditi
locative	eruditu	eruditima
instrumental	eruditom	eruditima