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):

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• Hyphenation: ed‧u‧ca‧tor

Noun

educator (plural educators)

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

• educatorese
• educatress
• educrat
• e-educator
• noneducator
• paraeducator
• phonicator
• psychoeducator
• special educator

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 Greek: εκπαιδευτικός (el) m or f (ekpaideftikós) Hindi: शिक्षक (hi) m (śikṣak) 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 (mu'addib)

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.dʊˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.duˈkaː.tor]

Noun

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

1. educator, tutor
2. foster father

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

1. 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)

1. educator

Declension

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