erudit

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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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ērudītus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. erudite

Further reading

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

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)

  1. erudite

Declension

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

erùdīt m (Cyrillic spelling еру̀дӣт)

  1. erudite

Declension