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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eː.dʊˈkaː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [e.duˈkaː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēducātor''' ''m'' (genitive ēducātōris, feminine ēducātrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ēducō#2|-tor|t1=to bring up, rear]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists that verb among the derivatives of [[m|la|dūcō|t=to lead]], from Plautus on.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it in the speech for Plancius of a foster-father.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The OLD defines it as one who nurtures or brings up children, especially a foster-father, and Georges glosses it as a rearer in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Seneca the Elder uses it in a declamation on a man who brought up exposed children, and Quintilian also has it.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Seneca and Tacitus it means a tutor or pedagogue, as in Tacitus' ''educator praeceptorque''; the Digest has the same sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means tutor, teacher, educator.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval British writers use it of a nurturer or trainer: Neckam tells of a dog that guarded its ''educator''.^(DMLBS) English borrowed it in the 1560s in the sense “one who nourishes or rears”; by the 1670s it also meant one who trains or instructs.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a foster-father.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian has it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of tutors.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1560s – English borrows it as [[m|en|educator]], “one who nourishes or rears”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # One who [[m|en|nurture|alt=nurtures]] or brings up children; especially a [[m|en|foster-father]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A [[m|en|tutor]], [[m|en|pedagogue]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A teacher, educator.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēducātrīx]]

+ * [[en|educator]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The feminine is [[ēducātrīx]].^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) Etymonline notes that the Latin feminine meant a nurse.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}