educate

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English educaten, from educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten) +‎ -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin ēducātus, the perfect passive participle of ēducō (“(of a child, physically or mentally) to bring up, train, nourish; (of a person in learning or art) to rear, educate, train; (plants or animals) to nourish, support, or produce”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from an intensive/frequentative formed on ēducō (“lead out, draw out; to raise up, erect”) +‎ -ō.

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.

   Synonyms: instruct, teach

   Antonym: ignorize

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

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, 73 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
• Ottoman Turkish: اوكرتمك (öğretmek)
• 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)

Etymology 2

From Middle English educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten), borrowed from Latin ēducātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

Adjective

educate (comparative more educate, superlative most educate)

1. (obsolete) educated

Further reading

• “educate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “educate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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