polymath

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  • It turns out that, in fact, the world was given this gift in 1738 by a Dutch polymath named Daniel Bernoulli. —  Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations
  • But while my core research is hyper-specialized, I think of myself, by contrast, as a polymath.
  • Morgenstern the economist and John von Neumann the polymath are longtime colleagues. —  Aeon Five
  • But he's always been a polymath, reading widely across disciplines and into the history of science and theology. —  Omni: October 1994
  • Sitting behind the Presidential desk (rosewood, as it happens, and very nice too) is a man whom later generations will call a polymath, a statesman-philosopher, a true product of the enlightenment. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 03 - September 2001
 

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  1. Greek polumathēs : polu-, poly- + manthanein, math-, to learn; see mendh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = F. polymathe = Spanish polímato, from Greek πολυμαθής, having learned much, knowing much, from πολύς, much, + μανθάνειν, μαθεῑν, learn.
 

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/ˈpɑlɪmæθ/
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