erudit

See also: érudit

English

Etymology

From French érudit. Doublet of erudite.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• rudite, Trudie, reduit, réduit

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ērudītus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ə.ɾuˈðit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [e.ɾuˈðit]

Adjective

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

1. erudite

Related terms

• erudició

Further reading

• “erudit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “erudit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “erudit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “erudit”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Latin

Verb

ērudit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ērudiō

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ērudītus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

1. erudite

Related terms

• erudicion

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2026, page 281

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French érudit, from Latin eruditus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ruˈdit/

Adjective

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

1. erudite

Declension

Declension of erudit

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	erudit		erudită	erudiți	erudite
	definite	eruditul		erudita	erudiții	eruditele
genitive- dative	indefinite	erudit		erudite	erudiți	erudite
	definite	eruditului		eruditei	erudiților	eruditelor

Further reading

• “erudit”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

erùdīt m anim (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