Latin

Noun

ērudītiō f ‎(genitive ērudītiōnis); third declension

1. That which removes one from ignorance, whether
   1. instruction, education
   2. erudition, learning, knowledge
      • 1756, Johann Matthias Gesner:

        Primae Lineae Isagoges in Eruditionem Universalem

        Introductions of a First Line into Universal Knowledge

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• Russian: эрудиция ‎(erudicija)

References

• eruditio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• eruditio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “eruditio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be well-informed, erudite: multarum rerum cognitione imbutum esse (opp. litterarum or eruditionis expertem esse or [rerum] rudem esse)