erudição
Portuguese, noun/e.ɾu.d͡ʒiˈsɐ̃w̃/
erudição is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “erudition (profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instrução vasta e variada, adquirida sobretudo pela leitura”.
What does erudição mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineerudition (profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. instrução vasta e variada, adquirida sobretudo pela leitura 2. qualidade do erudito
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of erudição
- erudições plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce erudição?
- Brazil /e.ɾu.d͡ʒiˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [e.ɾu.d͡ʒiˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /i.ɾu.diˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to erudição
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is erudição in Portuguese?
erudição appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).