v. discere (general term): ☞ ediscere, in this sense is poetical: cognoscere (to endeavor to gain an insight into): to learn by heart, ad verbum ediscere (librum, versus, etc.); memoriae mandare, tradere, infigere: to learn an art, a language, etc., artem, linguam, etc., discere (☞ not ediscere): to learn accurately or thoroughly, peruiscere: to be still learning (in addition), addiscere (☞ never = to learn): to learn quickly, celeriter arripere aliquid: to learn slowly, tarde percipere aliquid: to learn anything from or of anyone, discere aliquid ab aliquo or apud aliquem: to be quick at learning, facilem cognitionem habere; facilem esse addiscendum: to have learnt anything, aliquid didicisse, aliquid cognitum or perceptum habere (to have attained a knowledge of); doctum esse aliquid (to have been taught anything): I never leave you without having learned something, numquam accedo, quin abs te doctior abeam. ☞ To learn, followed by an infinitive when employed as an expletive, is frequently omitted in Latin; as, he did this that they might learn to fear him, fecit hoc, ut euin revererentur.