# erudite
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛɹ.ʊ.daɪt/
* (US) IPA: /ˈɛɹ.(j)u.daɪt/, /ˈɛɹ.(j)ə.daɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

erudite (comparative more erudite, superlative most erudite)
* Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:learned
** 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter XII, in The Scarlet Letter: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, “Chapter 43”, in The Custom of the Country: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.
** 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The most erudite locomotive engineer could not fail to excavate new knowledge from this remarkably comprehensive volume, [...]
** 2006 September 17, Jeff Israely, “Preaching Controversy”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 19 September 2010:Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.
** 2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker‎:Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.

#### Derived terms

* eruditely
* eruditeness
* inerudite
* nonerudite
* omnierudite
* unerudite

#### Related terms

* erudition
* rude

#### Translations
### Noun

erudite (plural erudites)
* a learned or scholarly person
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

erudite f pl
* feminine plural of erudito

#### Participle

erudite f pl
* feminine plural of erudito

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

erudite f pl
* plural of erudita

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

erudite
* inflection of erudire:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Anagrams

* deuteri, udirete

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From ērudītus (“educated, accomplished”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /eː.ruˈdiː.teː/, [eːrʊˈd̪iːt̪eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /e.ruˈdi.te/, [eruˈd̪iːt̪e]

#### Adverb

ērudītē (comparative ērudītius, superlative ērudītissimē)
* learnedly, with erudition

##### Related terms

* ērudiō
* ērudītiō
* ērudītulus
* ērudītus

### Etymology 2

Inflected forms

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /eː.ruˈdiː.te/, [eːrʊˈd̪iːt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /e.ruˈdi.te/, [eruˈd̪iːt̪e]

#### Participle

ērudīte
* vocative masculine singular of ērudītus

### References

* “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)