educatio

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [eː.dʊˈkaː.ti.oː]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [e.duˈkat.t͡si.o]^[1]

Forms

ēducātiō f (genitive ēducātiōnis); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin ēducō (“to bring up”) + -tiō.^[2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler's first source is the Rhetorica ad Herennium, dated 86/82 BC.^[3] Cicero uses it of the upbringing of men.^[4]

Semantic evolution

It meant rearing, upbringing or nurture, of children in Cicero, Quintilian and Tacitus.^[2][4] Quintilian criticises a soft upbringing and refers to precepts on the education of children.^[5] It was also used of the rearing of animals and the growing of plants, in Cicero and Pliny.^[6][4]

Medieval Latin kept the senses of upbringing and instruction, and used it of the hatching of eggs.^[7][3] English education is recorded in the 1530s, first of child-rearing and the training of animals.^[8]

Timeline

• 86/82 BC – The Rhetorica ad Herennium uses it.^[3]
• 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of people and of animals.^[4][3]
• c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of the education of children.^[5][3]
• 1530s – English education is recorded.^[8]

Meanings

Noun

1. Rearing, upbringing, nurture.^[2][1]
2. education, training.^[4][1]
3. The rearing of animals; the growing of plants.^[6]

Related words

• educo
• English education

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
5. ^ a b Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
6. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
7. ^ Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
8. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com