eruditio

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eː.rʊˈdiː.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.ruˈd̪it̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

ērudītiō f (genitive ērudītiōnis); third declension

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)