educado

/eduˈkado/ · B1 · adj

well-mannered, polite

🎩🙇 Cognate of educated, but in Spanish it mostly means polite: well brought up

From Latin educare, to bring up or rear. Spanish keeps the old sense: a persona educada has good manners, whatever their schooling. For book-learning, Spanish prefers culto or instruido. Mal educado means rude.

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