erudit
See also: érudit
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, vol. 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, p. 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 2003, p. 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.
- 1793, Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, vol. II:
Anagrams
- Trudie, rudite, réduit
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ērudītus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ə.ɾuˈdit/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /e.ɾuˈdit/
Adjective
erudit (feminine erudita, masculine plural erudits, feminine plural erudites)
- erudite
Related terms
- erudició
Further reading
- “erudit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “erudit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “erudit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “erudit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Verb
ērudit
- 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)
- erudite
Related terms
- erudicion
Romanian
Etymology
From French érudit, from Latin eruditus.
Adjective
erudit m or n (feminine singular erudită, masculine plural erudiți, feminine and neuter plural erudite)
- erudite
Declension
Declension of erudit
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 |
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /erǔdiːt/
- Hyphenation: e‧ru‧dit
Noun
erùdīt m (Cyrillic spelling еру̀дӣт)
- erudite
Declension
Declension of erudit
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | erùdīt | eruditi |
genitive | erudíta | erudita |
dative | eruditu | eruditima |
accusative | erudita | erudite |
vocative | erudite | eruditi |
locative | eruditu | eruditima |
instrumental | eruditom | eruditima |