eruditio Latin · revision 34058

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la ērudiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eː.rʊˈdiː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [e.ruˈdit.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ērudītiō''' ''f'' (genitive ērudītiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ērudiō|-tiō|t1=to educate, instruct]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes to his brother Quintus that there is nothing to say about his instruction, since Quintus knows his talent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The first sense is the action of teaching, instruction, but far more often it is the knowledge gained by instruction: learning, culture, or a branch of learning.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of a man without any learning.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein distinguishes [[doctrina]], learning as a particular kind of intellectual training, from ''ērudītiō'', its learned result, the crown of intellectual cultivation.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin uses it of learning.^(Stelten 1995) English ''erudition'' (c. 1400) first meant instruction.^(Etymonline) Since the 1520s it has meant learning or scholarship.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of instruction and of learning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1400 – English ''erudition'', instruction.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1520s – English ''erudition'', learning.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The action of teaching, [[m|en|instruction]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Knowledge gained by instruction, [[m|en|learning]], [[m|en|erudition]], culture; a branch of learning.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inērudītiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[eruditus|alt=ērudītus]]

+ * [[en|erudition]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Lewis & Short compare [[doctrina]], [[disciplina]], [[scientia]], [[intellegentia]] and [[cognitio|alt=cognitiō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}