erudite

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

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

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erudite (comparative more erudite, superlative most erudite)

1. Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Ch. XII:

     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, The Custom of the Country, ch. 43:

     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.

   • 2006, Jeff Israely, "Preaching Controversy," Time, 17 Sept.:

     Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.

• See also Thesaurus:learned

erudite (plural erudites)

1. a learned or scholarly person

erudite f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective erudito.

erudite f pl

1. feminine plural of erudito

erudite

1. second-person plural present indicative of erudire
2. second-person plural imperative of erudire
3. feminine plural past participle of erudire
4. feminine plural past participle of erudirsi

• deuteri, udirete

From ērudītus (“educated, accomplished”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.ruˈdiː.teː/, [eː.rʊˈdiː.teː]

ērudītē (comparative ērudītius, superlative ērudītissimē)

1. learnedly, with erudition

• ērudiō
• ērudītiō
• ērudītulus
• ērudītus

Inflected forms

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.ruˈdiː.te/, [eː.rʊˈdiː.tɛ]

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)