educate

Alternative forms

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

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Further reading

• “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.

Adjective

educate f pl

1. feminine plural of educato

Verb

educate

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

Verb

ēducāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēducō

Participle

ēducāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēducātus

Verb

educate

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