English → Latin
“educate” in Latin
ēdūcōto lead, draw or take out, forth or away; to raise up; erectalōto feed, to nourish, to nurture; to cultivate, to raise, to rear, etc. (as a child, an animal, etc.); to cause (a thing)tollōto raise, lift up, elevate; to remove, take away, steal, rob; to destroy, eliminate, annulsuscipiōto take up, acknowledge; to undertake, assume, begin, incur, enter upon (especially when done voluntarily and as a favorērudiōto instruct, to educate; to cultivate, to refineexcolōto tend or cultivate (figurative); to improve or perfect; to honourfīliadaughter; any female offspring
The English word educate itself goes back to Latin ēducō, through ēducātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
educate
educare (☞ educere in this sense is mostly prae-classical, though occasionally used by Cic.; e.g., quem procrearit et eduxerit, Or., 2, 28, 124; also Liv., Verg., , Tac., etc.): alere (to furnish everything necessary for support; e.g., of a philanthropist, who adopts and educates a child): tollere, suscipere (to take up a child after its birth as a sign that the person so doing recognizes it as his own, and will educate it; Vid: Ruhnken, Ter. Andr., 1, 3, 14; Cic., Ecl., p. 345). To be educated from one’s infancy in anybody’s house, a parvo or a prima infantia in alicujus domo educi. To adopt and educate a child, adoptare et educere; educere pro filio or filia.
To teach, erudire: excolere (☞ not efformare). To be well educated, bene doctum et educatum esse; institutum esse liberaliter educatione doctrinaque puerili.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for educate?
- The usual Latin words for “educate” are ēdūcō, alō, tollō; also suscipiō, ērudiō, excolō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.