linguist
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
linguist (plural linguists)
- One who studies linguistics.
- A person skilled in languages.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- 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; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.
Hypernyms edit
- scholar
- (student of languages): phonetician
Hyponyms edit
- (student of languages): orthoepist, dialectician, dialectologist
Meronyms edit
Derived terms edit
- 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
Translations edit
one who studies linguistics
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a person skilled in languages
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a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “492. scholar” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “linguist” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
Romanian edit
Noun edit
linguist m (plural linguiști, feminine equivalent linguistă)
- Alternative form of lingvist
Declension edit
Declension of linguist
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) linguist | linguistul | (niște) linguiști | linguiștii |
genitive/dative | (unui) linguist | linguistului | (unor) linguiști | linguiștilor |
vocative | linguistule | linguiștilor |