Erudite
/ˈɛr.jʊ.daɪt/noun
Having or showing deep, often scholarly knowledge.
Did you know?Erudite comes from Latin eruditus, originally meaning “polished out” or “trained out of roughness,” from e- (“out”) + rudis (“raw, rude, untrained”).
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*reu-
“to tear out, pull apart, or be rough/raw”
Latin
Latin
rudis
“raw, rough, untrained, inexperienced”
Latin
Latin
eruditus
“trained, instructed, polished by learning”
Late Latin
Latin
eruditus
“learned, educated”
Middle English
English
erudit
“learned, scholarly”
Modern English
English
erudite
“deeply learned; possessing great knowledge”