educate

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

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”).

• (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

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.

• instruct
• teach

• ignorize

• co-educate
• educating (uncommon adjectival form)
• overeducate
• reeducate
• self-educate
• undereducate

• “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.

educate f pl

1. feminine plural of educato

educate

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

ēducāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēducō

ēducāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēducātus

educate

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