educate · verb1
- Latin · derived fromēducātus
- Middle English · inherited fromeducaten
- English todayeducate
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.
educate · adjective2
- Latin · borrowed fromēducātus
- Middle English · inherited fromeducat(e)“educated”
- English todayeducate
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.