polyhistorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˌpɒliˈhɪstɔː(ɹ)/

名詞

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.

同意語

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

Further reading

• “polyhistor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• “polymath, polyhistor”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.