educator

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Latin ēducātor; synchronically analyzable as educate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒəkeɪtɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtə/, /ˈɛdjʊkeɪtə/
• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧ca‧tor

Noun

educator (plural educators)

1. A person distinguished for his/her educational work, a teacher.
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Translations

person distinguished for his/her educational work — see also teacher

• Arabic: مُعَلِّم (ar) m (muʕallim), مُؤَدِّب m (muʔaddib)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教育家 (zh) (jiàoyùjiā)

• Finnish: opettaja (fi), kasvattaja (fi)
• Hungarian: pedagógus (hu)
• Latin: ēducātor (la) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: kaiwhakaako, kaiako
• Persian: مؤدب (fa) (mo'addeb)
• Russian: педаго́г (ru) m (pedagóg), наста́вник (ru) m (nastávnik), наста́вница (ru) f (nastávnica)
• Spanish: educador
• Tajik: муъаддиб (muʾaddib)

teacher — see teacher

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• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} edukisto
• French: ^{(please verify)} éducateur (fr)
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} აღმზრდელი (aɣmzrdeli)
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• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} addysgwr (cy)

Anagrams

• aeroduct, outraced

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Latin

Etymology

From ēdūcō (“lead, draw or take out”) +‎ -ātor (agent suffix)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ēducātor m (genitive ēducātōris); 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

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ēducātor

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

References

• “educator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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.