educate

educate

English

Alternative forms

• (generally jocular) educamate
• (generally jocular) edumacate

Etymology

From Latin educatus, past participle of educare (“to "bring up or rise up or train or mould or nourish" (a child, physically or mentally), rear, educate, train (a person in learning or art), nourish, support, or produce (plants or animals)”), frequentative of educere, past participle eductus (“to "bring out or lead out or draw out or rear" (a child, usually with reference to bodily nurture or support, while educare refers more frequently to the mind)”), from e (“out”) + ducere (“to lead, draw”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒəkeɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdjʊkeɪt/, /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪt/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈedʒɘkæet/

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• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧cate

Verb

educate (third-person singular simple present educates, present participle educating, simple past and past participle educated)

1. to instruct or train

   Wang said such changes to the Baishui glacier provide the chance to educate visitors about global warming.

Synonyms

• instruct
• teach

Antonyms

• ignorize

Derived terms

• co-educate

Related terms

• education
• educative
• educator
• educatee
• educable
• educatable
• educational

Translations

to instruct or train

Albanian: arsimoj (sq), edukoj (sq) Arabic: يُعَلم‎ Bengali: শিক্ষা দেওয়া (shikkha deoa) Bulgarian: образовам (bg) (obrazovam), обучавам (bg) (obučavam), тренирам (bg) (treniram) Catalan: educar (ca), instruir (ca) Cornish: adhyski Czech: vzdělat Dutch: opleiden (nl), onderwijzen (nl), opvoeden (nl) Esperanto: eduki (eo) Finnish: kouluttaa (fi), kasvattaa (fi) French: éduquer (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: ausbilden (de), erziehen (de) Greek: εκπαιδεύω (el) (ekpaidévo) Ancient Greek: παιδεύω (paideúō) Hebrew: חִינֵּךְ‎ Hungarian: oktat (hu) Ido: edukar (io) Irish: oil (ga)

Italian: istruire (it), educare (it) Japanese: 教える (ja) (oshieru), 教育する (ja) (kyōiku suru), 啓発する (ja) (keihatsu suru) Kabuverdianu: iduka Kurdish: (please verify) taşandin (ku), (please verify) perwerde kirin (ku) , (please verify) fêr kirin (ku) , (please verify) elimandin (ku), (please verify) hîn kirin (ku) , (please verify) terbiye dan (ku) Latvian: audzināt Malay: didik Maltese: eduka Maori: whakaako Norman: êcoler, êdutchi, înstruithe Portuguese: educar (pt), instruir (pt), ensinar (pt) Romanian: educa (ro), instrui (ro) Russian: обуча́ть (ru) impf (obučátʹ), обучи́ть (ru) pf (obučítʹ), воспи́тывать (ru) impf (vospítyvatʹ), воспита́ть (ru) pf (vospitátʹ) (bring up, raise) Scottish Gaelic: foghlaim, ionnsaich, teagaisg Spanish: educar (es), instruir (es) Swahili: elimisha Swedish: utbilda (sv), uppfostra (sv) Tigrinya: መሃረ (mäharä) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Welsh: addysgu (cy)

Further reading

• educate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• educate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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Italian

Adjective

educate f pl

1. feminine plural of educato

Verb

educate

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

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Latin

Verb

ēducāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēducō

Participle

ēducāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēducātus