linguist

See also: Linguist and linguïst

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin lingua

English -ist

English linguist

Borrowed from Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

linguist (plural linguists)

1. One who studies linguistics.

   Antonym: nonlinguist

   Hypernym: scholar

   Hyponym: philologist

   1. (usually) One who studies modern-day linguistics, that is, linguistic science.

      Hypernyms: scientist < scholar

      Hyponyms: phonologist, morphologist, syntactician, grammarian, phonetician, sociophonetician, dialectologist, dialectician; comparative linguist, anthropolinguist, cryptolinguist, Eurolinguist, geolinguist, metalinguist, neurolinguist, xenolinguist

      • 2018 June 15, Julia Waldow, “George Lakoff says this is how Trump uses words to con the public”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

        President Donald Trump has "turned words into weapons" -- and journalists are providing additional ammunition.
        That's according to Trump critic George Lakoff, a renowned linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.

      • 2023 February 3, Pia Ceres, “Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics Is an Actual Linguistic Thing”, in Wired‎^[2], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-19:

        The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them.

2. A person skilled in languages.

   Antonym: nonlinguist

   Hyponyms: multilinguist, polylinguist, trilinguist, bilinguist, orthoepist

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →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.

3. A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.

   Antonym: nonlinguist

Derived terms

• 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

one who studies linguistics

• Afrikaans: taalkundige, linguis, taalwetenskaplike
• Albanian: gjuhëtar (sq) m
• Arabic: لُغَوِيّ m (luḡawiyy), عَالِم لُغَوِيّ m (ʕālim luḡawiyy), لِسَانِيّ (lisāniyy)
• Armenian: լեզվաբան (hy) (lezvaban)
• Asturian: llingüista m or f
• Azerbaijani: dilçi, dilşünas, linqvist
• Basque: hizkuntzalari
• Belarusian: мовазна́вец m (movaznávjec), моваве́д m (movavjéd), лінгві́ст m (linhvíst), лінгві́стка f (linhvístka)
• Bulgarian: езикове́д m (ezikovéd), лингви́ст (bg) m (lingvíst), лингви́стка f (lingvístka)
• Catalan: lingüista m or f
• Cebuano: magdidila
• Chechen: меттанийн ӏилманча (mettaniı̇n ˀilmanča)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語言學家 / 语言学家 (zh) (yǔyán xuéjiā), 語言學者 / 语言学者 (yǔyán xuézhě)

• Czech: jazykovědec m, jazykovědkyně (cs) f, lingvista (cs) m, lingvistka (cs) f
• Danish: lingvist c, sprogforsker c, sprogvidenskabsmand c
• Dutch: taalkundige (nl) m or f, linguïst (nl) m
• Esperanto: lingvisto
• Faroese: málfrøðingur m
• Finnish: kielitieteilijä (fi), kielentutkija, lingvisti (fi), lingvistikko (fi) (rare)
• French: linguiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: lingüista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: ლინგვისტი (lingvisṭi), ენათმეცნიერი (enatmecnieri)
• German: Sprachwissenschaftler (de) m, Sprachwissenschaftlerin (de) f, Sprachwissenschafter m (Austrian, Swiss), Sprachwissenschafterin f (Austrian, Swiss), Linguist (de) m, Linguistin (de) f, Sprachforscher (de) m, Sprachforscherin (de) f
• Greek: γλωσσολόγος (el) m or f (glossológos)
• Greenlandic: oqaasilerisoq
• Hebrew: בַּלְשָׁן (he) m (balshán)
• Hindi: भाषाविद m (bhāṣāvid)
• Hungarian: nyelvész (hu), nyelvtudós (hu)
• Icelandic: málvísindamaður m
• Interlingua: linguista
• Irish: teangeolaí m
• Italian: linguista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 言語学者 (ja) (げんごがくしゃ, gengogakusha)
• Kazakh: тіл маманы (tıl mamany), лингвист (liñvist)
• Khmer: ភាសាវិទូ (phiəsaa vituu)
• Korean: 언어학자 (ko) (eoneohakja)
• Kyrgyz: лингвист (lingvist)
• Lao: ນັກພາສາສາດ (nak phā sā sāt)
• Latvian: valodnieks m, lingvists m
• Lithuanian: kalbininkas m, lingvistas m, kalbotyrininkas m
• Macedonian: јазичар m (jazičar), лингвист m (lingvist)
• Manx: çhengeyder m, glareydagh m
• Norman: lîndgiste m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lingvist m, språkforsker (no) m, språkviter m, språkvitenskapsmann m

  Nynorsk: lingvist m, språkforskar m, språkvetar m, språkvitar m, språkvitskapsmann m

• Occitan: lingüista (oc) m or f
• Persian: زبان‌شناس (fa) (zabân-šenâs)
• Polish: językoznawca (pl) m, językoznawczyni f, lingwista (pl) m, lingwistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: linguista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: lingvist (ro) m, lingvistă (ro) f
• Russian: лингви́ст (ru) m (lingvíst), лингви́стка (ru) f (lingvístka), языкове́д (ru) m (jazykovéd)
• Scottish Gaelic: cainntear m, cànanaiche m, teangaiche m, teangair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: lìngvist (sh) m, lingvìstica (sh) f, jezikoslóvac (sh) m, jezikòslōvka (sh) f

• Slovak: jazykovedec m, jazykovedkyňa f, lingvista m, lingvistka f
• Slovene: jezikoslovec (sl), jezikoslovka f
• Spanish: lingüista (es) m or f
• Swahili: mwanaisimu (sw)
• Swedish: lingvist (sv) c, språkforskare (sv) c, språkvetare (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalubwika
• Tajik: забоншинос (zabonšinos), лингвист (lingvist)
• Tatar: телче (tt) (telçe), тел белгече (tel belgeçe), лингвист (lingwist)
• Thai: นักภาษาศาสตร์ (nák-paa-sǎa-sàat)
• Tibetan: སྐད་རིགས་མཁས་པ (skad rigs mkhas pa)
• Turkish: dilbilimci (tr), lengüist (tr)
• Ukrainian: мовозна́вець m (movoznávecʹ), лінгві́ст (uk) m (linhvíst), лінгві́стка f (linhvístka)
• Uyghur: تىلشۇناس (tilshunas)
• Uzbek: tilshunos (uz), lingvist (uz), tilchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhà ngôn ngữ học (茹言語學)
• Welsh: ieithydd (cy) m
• Yiddish: לינגוויסט m (lingvist), שפּראַכפֿאָרשער m (shprakhforsher), שפּראַכקענער m (shprakhkener)

a person skilled in languages

• Bulgarian: лингвист (bg) m (lingvist)
• Cebuano: magdidila
• Finnish: kieliniekka, kielimies
• Hungarian: idegen nyelveket (jól) beszélő ember, idegen nyelveken (jól) tudó ember
• Polish: lingwista (pl) m, lingwistka (pl) f, poliglota (pl) m, poliglotka f
• Portuguese: linguista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: poliglot (ro) m

a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces

• Finnish: tulkki (fi)
• Galician: tradutor (gl) m
• Hungarian: fordító (hu), tolmács (hu)
• Japanese: 翻訳者, 翻訳家 (ja), 通訳 (ja)
• Portuguese: intérprete (pt) m or f, tradutor (pt) m
• Romanian: translator (ro) m, interpret (ro) f

See also

• lingua
• linguaphile
• multilingual
• polyglot
• prescriptivist

Further reading

• “492. scholar” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “linguist” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.

Romanian

Noun

linguist m (plural linguiști, feminine equivalent linguistă)

1. Alternative form of lingvist

Declension

Declension of linguist

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	linguist	linguistul		linguiști	linguiștii
genitive-dative	linguist	linguistului		linguiști	linguiștilor
vocative	linguistule			linguiștilor