linguist
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *denɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Borrowed from Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist.
- borrowed from lingua
Definitions
One who studies linguistics.
A person skilled in languages.
- I found that he could write and read English, but could not speak it, being like myself a bad linguist; so we had to use French as a medium of communication.
- The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.
A human translator
A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.
The neighborhood
- synonymlinguist
- neighborlingua
- neighborlinguaphile
- neighbormultilingual
- neighborpolyglot
- neighborprescriptivist
- neighborscholar
- neighborphilologist
- neighborlinguistics
- neighborlanguage
- neighborscientist
- neighborperson
- neighbordialectologist
Derived
anthropolinguist, bilinguist, co-linguist, colinguist, comparative linguist, cryptolinguist, cunning linguist, Eurolinguist, geolinguist, linguister, linguistic, linguistics, linguistry, metalinguist, missionary linguist, missionary-linguist, monolinguist, multilinguist, neolinguist, neurolinguist, nonlinguist, polylinguist, slanguist, trilinguist, unilinguist, xenolinguist
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for linguist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA