erudite

See also: érudite

English

WOTD – 14 June 2006

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.ʊ.daɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.(j)u.daɪt/, /ˈɛɹ.(j)ə.daɪt/

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Adjective

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.

Related terms

• eruditely
• erudition
• rude

 

Translations

scholarly, learned

• Bulgarian: ерудиран (erudiran), начетен (bg) (načeten)
• Catalan: erudit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 博學／博学 (zh) (bóxué), 有學問／有学问 (zh) (yǒu xuéwèn), 淵博／渊博 (zh) (yuānbó)

• Danish: lærd
• Dutch: geleerd (nl), belezen (nl), erudiet (nl)
• Faroese: lærdur
• Finnish: oppinut (fi), sivistynyt (fi)
• French: érudit (fr)
• Galician: erudito
• German: belesen (de), gelehrt (de), gebildet (de)
• Greek: πολυμαθής (el) m or f (polymathís), λόγιος (el) m (lógios)
• Hebrew: חבר אוריינות m (chavér orianút)
• Hungarian: művelt (hu)
• Irish: léannta
• Italian: erudito (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زانیار (zanyar)

• Latin: ērudītus
• Macedonian: на́читан m (náčitan), у́чен m (účen), ерудити́вен m (eruditíven)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lærd (no)

• Occitan: erudit (oc)
• Persian: با سواد
• Portuguese: erudito (pt)
• Russian: эруди́рованный (ru) (erudírovannyj), начи́танный (ru) (načítannyj), учёный (ru) (učónyj)
• Slovak: erudovaný
• Spanish: erudito (es)
• Swedish: lärd (sv)
• Tagalog: matalisik
• Vietnamese: có học thức, bác học (vi)
• Yiddish: לומדיש (lomdish)

Noun

erudite (plural erudites)

1. a learned or scholarly person

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

erudite f pl

1. feminine plural of erudito

Participle

erudite f pl

1. feminine plural of erudito

Etymology 2

Noun

erudite f pl

1. plural of erudita

Etymology 3

Verb

erudite

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

Anagrams

• deuteri, udirete

Latin

Etymology 1

From ērudītus (“educated, accomplished”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.ruˈdiː.teː/, [eːrʊˈd̪iːt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.ruˈdi.te/, [eruˈd̪iːt̪e]

Adverb

ērudītē (comparative ērudītius, superlative ērudītissimē)

1. learnedly, with erudition

Related terms

• ērudiō
• ērudītiō
• ērudītulus
• ērudītus

Etymology 2

Inflected forms

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.ruˈdiː.te/, [eːrʊˈd̪iːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.ruˈdi.te/, [eruˈd̪iːt̪e]

Participle

ērudīte

1. vocative masculine singular of ērudītus

References

• “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)