erudit

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English

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Etymology

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From French érudit. Doublet of erudite.

Noun

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erudit (plural erudits)

  1. (rare) An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.
    • 1793, Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, volume 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, page 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, published 2003, page 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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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ērudītus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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erudit (feminine erudita, masculine plural erudits, feminine plural erudites)

  1. erudite
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Further reading

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Latin

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Verb

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ērudit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of ērudiō

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin ērudītus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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erudit m (feminine singular erudita, masculine plural erudits, feminine plural eruditas)

  1. erudite
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French érudit, from Latin eruditus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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erudit m or n (feminine singular erudită, masculine plural erudiți, feminine and neuter plural erudite)

  1. erudite

Declension

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /erǔdiːt/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ru‧dit

Noun

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erùdīt m (Cyrillic spelling еру̀дӣт)

  1. erudite

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