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”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒəkeɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdjʊkeɪt/, /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪt/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈedʒɘkæet/

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• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧cate

educate (third-person singular simple present educates, present participle educating, simple past and past participle educated)

1. 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

• education
• educative
• educator
• educatee
• educable
• educatable
• educational

• educate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• educate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

educate f pl

1. feminine plural of educato

educate

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

ēducāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēducō

ēducāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēducātus