erudite的词源

英文词源

erudite: erudite: [15] To be erudite is literally to be the opposite of ‘rude’. Latin rudis (source of English rude) meant ‘rough, unpolished’, and so ērudīre, a compound verb formed with the prefix ex- ‘out of, from’, signified ‘take the roughness out of’, hence ‘polish, teach’. Its past participle formed the basis of an adjective, ērudītus ‘(well) taught’, which as borrowed into English has acquired the greater gravitas of ‘learned’.
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erudite (adj.): early 15c., "learned, well-instructed," from Latin eruditus "learned, accomplished, well-informed," past participle of erudire "to educate, teach, instruct, polish," literally "to bring out of the rough," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + rudis "unskilled, rough, unlearned" (see rude). Related: Eruditely.

该词构词较简单，前缀e-指“出，外”，词根-rud-和单词rude（粗鲁无礼的）同源，博学的人所受文化熏陶较深厚，言行举止一般会脱离粗鲁无礼的层次。也可使用联想，-rud-形似read（阅读），这样字面义就成了：“博学是读出来的”。

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