polyglottist

Of a real or pretended polyglottist, who might thus have served as an universal

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Colline's eyes remained riveted on the rope ladder as well as the cage, in which the bird, thawed by the atmosphere of the cafe, began to sing in a language unknown to Colline, who was, however, a polyglottist.

Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henry Murger 1841