self-educated

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swé?

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *selbaz

Old English self

Old English self-

Middle English self-

English self-

English educate

English -ed

English educated

English self-educated

From self- + educated.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

self-educated (comparative more self-educated, superlative most self-educated)

1. Of a person, having learned without the direction of a teacher.

Translations

having learned without the direction of a teacher — see also autodidactic

• Arabic: عِصَامِيّ (ar) m (ʕiṣāmiyy)
• Bulgarian: самоук (bg) (samouk)
• Danish: selvlært, autodidakt (da)
• Dutch: autodidact (nl)
• Faroese: sjálvlærdur
• Finnish: itseoppinut
• French: autodidacte (fr)
• Galician: autodidacta m or f
• German: autodidaktisch (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos)

• Hungarian: autodidakta (hu)
• Macedonian: самоук (samouk), самообразован (samoobrazovan)
• Norwegian: autodidakt (no) m, selvlært m
• Polish: autodydaktyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: autodidata (pt)
• Romanian: autodidact (ro)
• Russian: вы́учившийся самостоя́тельно (výučivšijsja samostojátelʹno), вы́учившийся самоу́чкой (výučivšijsja samoúčkoj), самообу́ченный (samoobúčennyj), самообразо́ванный (samoobrazóvannyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: fèin-ionnsaichte
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самообразован, самоучен

  Latin: samoobrazovan, samoučen

• Spanish: autoeducado
• Swedish: självlärd (sv)
• Yiddish: אויטאָדידאַקטיש (oytodidaktish)

See also

• autodidact
• self-taught

Verb

self-educated

1. simple past and past participle of self-educate

Related terms

• self-education