Etymograph

English

inerudite

Inerudite comes from Latin inērudītus ‘uninformed, uneducated’, and goes back to ērudītus ‘instructed, educated, cultivated, enlightened,…’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEērudītus‘instructed, educated, cultivated, enlightened, learned’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinērudītus‘uninformed, uneducated’
  3. Englishtodayinerudite

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEērudītus‘instructed, educated, cultivated, enlightened, learned’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinērudītus‘uninformed, uneducated’
  3. Englishtodayinerudite

Equivalent to in- ‘not’ + erudite

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *Hrew- ‘to tear up, dig up’

Latin rudis ‘rude, unskilled’

Latin ērudiō ‘educate, train’

Latin ērudītus ‘instructed, educated, cultivated,…’

English erudite

Today it means

adj Not erudite; unlearned; ignorant.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin ērudītus / inerudite