educator

English

Etymology

From Latin ēducātor. By surface analysis, educate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtə/, /ˈɛdjʊkeɪtə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: ed‧u‧ca‧tor

Noun

educator (plural educators)

A person distinguished for their educational work, a teacher.
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Derived terms

Translations

person distinguished for educational work — see also teacher

Arabic: مُعَلِّم (ar) m (muʕallim), مُؤَدِّب m (muʔaddib)
Catalan: educador (ca) m, educadora (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 教育家 (zh) (jiàoyùjiā), 教育者 (jiàoyùzhě)
Finnish: opettaja (fi), kasvattaja (fi)
French: éducateur (fr) m, éducatrice (fr) f
Galician: educador (gl) m, educadora f
German: Erzieher (de) m, Erzieherin (de) f
Hungarian: pedagógus (hu)
Japanese: 教育者 (ja) (きょういくしゃ, kyōikusha), 教育家 (きょういくか, kyōikuka)
Korean: 교육자 (ko) (gyoyukja), 교육가 (ko) (gyoyukga)
Latin: ēducātor (la) m, ēducātrīx f
Maori: kaiwhakaako, kaiako
Persian: مؤدب (fa) (mo'addeb)
Portuguese: educador (pt) m, educadora (pt) f
Romanian: educator (ro) m, educatoare (ro) f
Russian: педаго́г (ru) m (pedagóg), наста́вник (ru) m (nastávnik), наста́вница (ru) f (nastávnica)
Spanish: educador (es) m, educadora (es) f
Swahili: muelimishaji
Swedish: undervisare (sv) c, utbildare c
Tajik: муъаддиб (muʾaddib)

teacher — see teacher

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Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} edukisto
French: ^{(please verify)} éducateur (fr)
Georgian: ^{(please verify)} აღმზრდელი (aɣmzrdeli)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} addysgwr (cy)

Anagrams

aeroduct, outraced

Latin

Etymology

From ēducō (“bring up, rear, educate, train, or produce”) +‎ -tor (agent suffix).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.duˈkaː.tor/, [eːd̪ʊˈkäːt̪ɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.duˈka.tor/, [ed̪uˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

ēducātor m (genitive ēducātōris, feminine ēducātrīx); third declension

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēducātor	ēducātōrēs
genitive	ēducātōris	ēducātōrum
dative	ēducātōrī	ēducātōribus
accusative	ēducātōrem	ēducātōrēs
ablative	ēducātōre	ēducātōribus
vocative	ēducātor	ēducātōrēs

Related terms

ēducātrīx

Descendants

Catalan: educador
French: éducateur
Galician: educador
Italian: educatore
Portuguese: educador
Romanian: educator
Spanish: educador

Verb

ēducātor

second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ēducō

References

“educator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“educator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
educator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French éducateur, from Latin ēducātor. Equivalent to educa +‎ -tor.

Noun

educator m (plural educatori, feminine equivalent educatoare)

educator

Declension

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	educator	educatorul	educatori	educatorii
genitive-dative	educator	educatorului	educatori	educatorilor
vocative	educatorule		educatorilor