eruditio

Latin

Etymology

From ērudīre (“to remove from ignorance, to educate”) +‎ -tiō (forming nouns from verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.ruˈdiː.ti.oː/, [eːrʊˈd̪iːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.ruˈdit.t͡si.o/, [eruˈd̪it̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ērudītiō f (genitive ērudītiōnis); third declension

1. That which removes one from ignorance whether instruction, education or erudition, learning, knowledge

   Synonyms: cognitiō, scientia, sapientia, disciplīna

   Antonym: ignōrantia

   • Johann Matthias Gesner :

     primae lineae īsagōgēs in Eruditionem universalem

     Introductions of a First Line into Universal Knowledge

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ērudītiō	ērudītiōnēs
genitive	ērudītiōnis	ērudītiōnum
dative	ērudītiōnī	ērudītiōnibus
accusative	ērudītiōnem	ērudītiōnēs
ablative	ērudītiōne	ērudītiōnibus
vocative	ērudītiō	ērudītiōnēs

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: еруди́ция (erudícija)
• → Danish: erudition
• → Dutch: eruditie
• → English: erudition
• → French: érudition
• → Galician: erudición
• → Italian: erudizione
• → Piedmontese: erudission
• → Polish: erudycja
• → Portuguese: erudição
• → Romanian: erudiție
• → Russian: эруди́ция (erudícija)
• → Spanish: erudición
• → Ukrainian: ерудиція (erudycija)

References

• “eruditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eruditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• eruditio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be well-informed, erudite: multarum rerum cognitione imbutum esse (opp. litterarum or eruditionis expertem esse or [rerum] rudem esse)