educate

English

Alternative forms

• (generally jocular) educamate
• (generally jocular) edumacate

Etymology

From Latin educatus, past participle of educare (“to "bring up or rise up or train or mould or nourish" (a child, physically or mentally), rear, educate, train (a person in learning or art), nourish, support, or produce (plants or animals)”), frequentative of educere, past participle eductus (“to "bring out or lead out or draw out or rear" (a child, usually with reference to bodily nurture or support, while educare refers more frequently to the mind)”), from e (“out”) + ducere (“to lead, draw”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.jʊˌkeɪt/, /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/, /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈed͡ʒ.ɘˌkæet/
• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧cate

Verb

educate (third-person singular simple present educates, present participle educating, simple past and past participle educated)

1. (transitive) To instruct or train.

   Wang said such changes to the Baishui glacier provide the chance to educate visitors about global warming.

Synonyms

• instruct
• teach

Antonyms

• ignorize

Derived terms

• co-educate
• educatability
• educatable
• educatee
• educating (uncommon adjectival form)
• education
• educative
• educatory
• miseducate
• overeducate
• reeducate
• self-educate
• undereducate
• uneducate

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dewk- (0 c, 70 e)

Translations

to instruct or train

• Albanian: arsimoj (sq), edukoj (sq)
• Arabic: يُعَلم, درّب
• Armenian: կրթել (hy) (krtʻel)
• Azerbaijani: oxutmaq (to send to school), təlim etmək (to instruct, train), təhsil vermək, təhsilləndirmək
• Bengali: শিক্ষা দেওয়া (bn) (śikkha deōẇa)
• Bulgarian: образовам (bg) (obrazovam), обучавам (bg) (obučavam), тренирам (bg) (treniram)
• Catalan: educar (ca), instruir (ca)
• Cornish: adhyski
• Czech: vzdělat
• Dutch: opleiden (nl), onderwijzen (nl), opvoeden (nl)
• Esperanto: eduki (eo)
• Finnish: kouluttaa (fi), kasvattaa (fi)
• French: éduquer (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: ausbilden (de), erziehen (de)
• Greek: εκπαιδεύω (el) (ekpaidévo)

  Ancient Greek: παιδεύω (paideúō)

• Hebrew: חִינֵּךְ
• Hungarian: oktat (hu)
• Ido: edukar (io)
• Irish: oil (ga)
• Italian: istruire (it), educare (it)
• Japanese: 教える (ja) (oshieru), 教育する (ja) (kyōiku suru), 啓発する (ja) (keihatsu suru)
• Kabuverdianu: iduka
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} taşandin (ku), ^{(please verify)} perwerde kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} fêr kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} elimandin (ku), ^{(please verify)} hîn kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} terbiye dan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: окутуу (ky) (okutuu), ийитүү (iyitüü)
• Latvian: audzināt
• Malay: didik
• Maltese: eduka
• Maori: whakaako
• Norman: êcoler, êdutchi, înstruithe
• Old English: ġetēon
• Polish: edukować (pl) impf, uczyć (pl) impf
• Portuguese: educar (pt), instruir (pt), ensinar (pt)
• Romanian: educa (ro), instrui (ro)
• Russian: обуча́ть (ru) impf (obučátʹ), обучи́ть (ru) pf (obučítʹ), воспи́тывать (ru) impf (vospítyvatʹ), воспита́ть (ru) pf (vospitátʹ, literally “bring up, raise”)
• Scottish Gaelic: foghlaim, ionnsaich, teagaisg
• Sinhalese: ඉගැන්වීම (igænwīma)
• Spanish: educar (es), instruir (es)
• Swahili: elimisha
• Swedish: utbilda (sv), uppfostra (sv)
• Tigrinya: መሃረ (mäharä)
• Turkish: eğitmek (tr)
• Welsh: addysgu (cy)

Further reading

• “educate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “educate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Italian

Adjective

educate f pl

1. feminine plural of educato

Verb

educate

1. inflection of educare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Latin

Verb

ēducāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēducō

Participle

ēducāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēducātus

Spanish

Verb

educate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of educar combined with te