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English
Etymology
From French érudit. Doublet of erudite.
Noun
erudit (plural erudits)
- (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
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ērudītus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
erudit (feminine erudita, masculine plural erudits, feminine plural erudites)
- erudite
Further reading
Latin
Verb
ērudit
- third-person singular present active indicative of ērudiō
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin ērudītus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
erudit m (feminine singular erudita, masculine plural erudits, feminine plural eruditas)
- erudite
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French érudit, from Latin eruditus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
erudit m or n (feminine singular erudită, masculine plural erudiți, feminine and neuter plural erudite)
- erudite
Declension
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /erǔdiːt/
- Hyphenation: e‧ru‧dit
Noun
erùdīt m (Cyrillic spelling еру̀дӣт)
- erudite
Declension