erudite

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

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

• Audio (US):

  (file)

erudite (comparative more erudite, superlative most erudite)

1. Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:learned

   The professor gave an erudite lecture that impressed everyone in the audience.

   His erudite knowledge of ancient history made him a sought-after speaker.

   She was praised for her erudite contributions to the academic journal.

   • 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], archived from the original on 20 March 2016:

     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.

erudite (plural erudites)

1. a learned or scholarly person

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived from English erudite, French érudit, Italian erudito, Portuguese erudito and Spanish erudito, all from Latin ērudītus.

• IPA^(key): /e.ruˈdi.te/

erudite (comparative plus erudite, superlative le plus erudite)

1. erudite

erudite

1. past participle of erudir

• Alexander Gode (1951), Interlingua-English: A Dictionary of the International Language, New York: Storm Publishers, →OL

erudite f pl

1. feminine plural of erudito

erudite f pl

1. feminine plural of erudito

erudite f pl

1. plural of erudita

erudite

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

• deuteri, udirete

From ērudītus (“educated, accomplished”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eː.rʊˈdiː.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.ruˈdiː.te]

ērudītē (comparative ērudītius, superlative ērudītissimē)

1. learnedly, with erudition

• ērudiō
• ērudītiō
• ērudītulus
• ērudītus

Inflected forms

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eː.rʊˈdiː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.ruˈdiː.te]

ērudīte

1. vocative masculine singular of ērudītus

• “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)