Etymology

learning-knight

Today it means: One disciplined and devoted to learning; a student or disciple. Full definition →

Middle English lerning-knight ← Old English leornungcniht
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The story

  1. Old English · borrowed fromleornungcniht
  2. Middle English · borrowed fromlerning-knight
  3. English todaylearning-knight

Likely a revival of either Middle English lerning-knight or its antecedent Old English leornungcniht.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.