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polyglotism

noun

Etymology

From polyglot + -ism.

  1. derived from polyglottus
  2. derived from *glōgʰs✻ — “tip of corn”
  3. derived from γλῶσσᾰ — “tongue; language”
  4. derived from γλῶττα
  5. derived from *pleh₁-✻ — “to fill”
  6. derived from πολῠ́γλωσσος — “speaking many languages, multilingual”
  7. borrowed from πολύγλωττος — “speaking many languages, multilingual”
  8. suffixed as polyglotism — “polyglot + ism”

Definitions

  1. The use, notably in speech, of several languages.

  2. The ability to communicate in several languages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polyglotism. 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