educator

English

Etymology

From Latin ēducātor; synchronically analyzable as educate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒəkeɪtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtə/, /ˈɛdjʊkeɪtə/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧ca‧tor

Noun

educator (plural educators)

1. A person distinguished for his/her educational work, a teacher.
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     This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^[sic] years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

Translations

person distinguished for his/her educational work — See also translations at teacher

• Arabic: مُعَلِّم‎ (ar) m (muʿallim), مُؤَدِّب‎ m (muʾaddib)
• Catalan: educador (ca) m, educadora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教育家 (zh) (jiàoyùjiā), 教育者 (jiàoyùzhě)

• Finnish: opettaja (fi), kasvattaja (fi)
• French: éducateur (fr) m, éducatrice (fr) f
• Galician: educador (gl) m, educadora f
• German: Erzieher (de) m, Erzieherin (de) f
• Hungarian: pedagógus (hu)

• Japanese: 教育者 (ja) (きょういくしゃ, kyōikusha), 教育家 (きょういくか, kyōikuka)
• Korean: 교육자 (ko) (gyoyukja), 교육가 (ko) (gyoyukga)
• Latin: ēducātor (la) m, ēducātrīx f
• Maori: kaiwhakaako, kaiako
• Persian: مؤدب‎ (fa) (mo'addeb)
• Portuguese: educador (pt) m, educadora (pt) f
• Romanian: educator (ro) m, educatoare (ro) f
• Russian: педаго́г (ru) m (pedagóg), наста́вник (ru) m (nastávnik), наста́вница (ru) f (nastávnica)
• Spanish: educador m, educadora (es) f
• Tajik: муъаддиб (muʾaddib)

teacher — see teacher

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Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} edukisto
• French: ^{(please verify)} éducateur (fr)

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} აღმზრდელი (aɣmzrdeli)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} addysgwr (cy)

Anagrams

• aeroduct, outraced

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Latin

Etymology

From ēducō (“bring up, rear, educate, train, or produce”) +‎ -tor (agent suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.duˈkaː.tor/, [eːd̪ʊˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.duˈka.tor/, [ed̪uˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

ēducātor m (genitive ēducātōris, feminine ēducātrīx); third declension

1. educator, tutor
2. foster father

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēducātor	ēducātōrēs
Genitive	ēducātōris	ēducātōrum
Dative	ēducātōrī	ēducātōribus
Accusative	ēducātōrem	ēducātōrēs
Ablative	ēducātōre	ēducātōribus
Vocative	ēducātor	ēducātōrēs

Related terms

• ēducātrīx

Descendants

• Catalan: educador
• Galician: educador
• Italian: educatore
• Portuguese: educador
• Spanish: educador

Verb

ēducātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ēducō

References

• “educator”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “educator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• educator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Romanian

Etymology

From French éducateur, from Latin ēducātor.

Noun

educator m (plural educatori, feminine equivalent educatoare)

1. educator

Declension

Declension of educator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) educator	educatorul	(niște) educatori	educatorii
genitive/dative	(unui) educator	educatorului	(unor) educatori	educatorilor
vocative	educatorule		educatorilor