TEACH Copy link • TEACHdocere (general term): praecipere: praecepta dare de re (to give precepts, rules): tradere (to deliver; e.g., the history or rules of an art, etc.): profiteri (to profess or teach publicly): ostendere: declarare (to show, prove). To teach anybody, aliquem instituere, erudire (to instruct him; the latter especially of a beginner); aliquem condocefacere (to train or teach an animal): to teach a person anything, docere aliquem aliquid (☞ different from edocere aliquem aliquid or de re = to give accurate information on a definite subject); instituere, erudire aliquem aliqua re, in aliqua re; tradere alicui aliquid (Vid: above); imbuere aliquem aliqua re (to imbue with imperceptibly, but completely; also = to give a smattering of). Proverbially. To teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs; Vid: EGG.