different between didactic vs erudite

English

Alternative forms

• didactick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French didactique, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from ???????? (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from ??????? (didásk?, “I teach, educate”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?-d?k?t?k, IPA^(key): /da??dæk.t?k/, /d??dæk.t?k/
• Hyphenation: di?dac?tic

Adjective

didactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

   Synonyms: educative, instructive
2. Excessively moralizing.
3. (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

didactic (plural didactics)

1. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French didactique

Adjective

didactic m or n (feminine singular didactic?, masculine plural didactici, feminine and neuter plural didactice)

1. didactic

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin ?rud?tus, participle of ?rudi? (“educate, train”), from e- (“out of”) + rudis (“rude, unskilled”). Doublet of erudit.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.?.da?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.(j)u.da?t/, IPA^(key): /???.(j)?.da?t/

Adjective

erudite (comparative more erudite, superlative most erudite)

1. Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:learned

Related terms

Translations

Noun

erudite (plural erudites)

1. a learned or scholarly person

Italian

Adjective

erudite f pl

1. feminine plural of erudito

Noun

erudite f pl

1. feminine plural of erudito

Verb

erudite

1. second-person plural present indicative of erudire
2. second-person plural imperative of erudire
3. feminine plural past participle of erudire
4. feminine plural past participle of erudirsi

Anagrams

• deuteri, udirete

Latin

Etymology 1

From ?rud?tus (“educated, accomplished”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?.ru?di?.te?/, [e????d?i?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.ru?di.te/, [??u?d?i?t??]

Adverb

?rud?t? (comparative ?rud?tius, superlative ?rud?tissim?)

1. learnedly, with erudition

Related terms

• ?rudi?
• ?rud?ti?
• ?rud?tulus
• ?rud?tus

Etymology 2

Inflected forms

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?.ru?di?.te/, [e????d?i?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.ru?di.te/, [??u?d?i?t??]

Participle

?rud?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?rud?tus

References

• erudite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)