educate

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

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.

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/
  • (without the yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.jʊˌkeɪt/

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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.

   Synonyms: instruct, teach

   Antonym: ignorize

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

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.

educate (comparative more educate, superlative most educate)

1. (obsolete) educated

• “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.

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