polyhistor

See also: Polyhistor

English

Etymology

From Latin polyhistor (“very learned”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πολυΐστωρ (poluḯstōr, “greatly learned”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɒliˈhɪstɔː(ɹ)/

Noun

polyhistor (plural polyhistors)

1. Someone gifted or learned to a great extent or in multiple disciplines; a great scholar. [from 16th c.]
   • 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 24:

     A hired diplomat in Edirne and to the Porte in Constantinople, a military commander in the Austro-Turkish wars, a polyhistor and a learned man.

   • 1997, Eckhart Gillen, quoting Henry Schumann, German Art from Beckmann to Richter, →ISBN, page 289:

     [Carlfriedrich] Claus is an artist, though he does not like to call himself one, and a scholar. As such, he personifies the polyhistor, a species rarely found today.

Synonyms

• (gifted in multiple disciplines): polymath, Renaissance man

Translations

someone gifted or learned in multiple disciplines

• Hungarian: polihisztor (hu)
• Polish: polihistor (pl)
• Serbo-Croatian: polihistor (sh) m

Further reading

• “polyhistor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• polymath, polyhistor at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpolɪɦɪstor]

Noun

polyhistor m anim

1. polymath, polyhistor

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

See also

• všeuměl

Further reading

• “polyhistor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “polyhistor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989