erudit

From French érudit. Doublet of erudite.

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.

• rudite, Trudie, reduit, réduit

Borrowed from Latin ērudītus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ɾuˈðit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.ɾuˈðit]

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

1. erudite

• erudició

• “erudit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “erudit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

ērudit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ērudiō

From Latin ērudītus.

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erudit m (feminine singular erudita, masculine plural erudits, feminine plural eruditas)

1. erudite

• erudicion

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 281.

Borrowed from French érudit, from Latin eruditus.

• IPA^(key): /e.ruˈdit/

erudit m or n (feminine singular erudită, masculine plural erudiți, feminine and neuter plural erudite)

1. erudite

• “erudit”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

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

erùdīt m anim (Cyrillic spelling еру̀дӣт)

1. erudite