linguist

linguist
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. polyglot, philologist, etymologist. See speech.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Student of language]
Syn. etymologist, philologist, philologer, structuralist, structural linguist, usagist, transformationalist, transformational grammarian, phonologist, dialectician, vocabulist, glossographer, glossologist, phoneticist, phonetician, phonemist, grammatist, grammarian, lexiconist, lexicographer, philologue, linguistician, stratificationalist, stratificational grammarian, tagmemist, glottochronologist, comparativist, comparative (Indo-European) grammarian, reconstructionist, linguistic geographer, semanticist.
2. [Speaker of many languages]
Syn. polyglot, translator, polyglottist, savant, conversant, Pangloss; see also scholar 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
polyglot, bilinguist, translator, interpreter.

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  • Linguist — Sf Sprachwissenschaftler , früher auch Sprachenkenner erw. fach. (16. Jh.) Neoklassische Bildung. Neoklassische Bildung zu l. lingua Zunge, Sprache . Abstraktum: Linguistik; Adjektiv: linguistisch.    Ebenso nndl. linguïst, ne. linguist, nfrz.… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

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  • Linguist — (v. lat. lingua, »Sprache«), Sprachkundiger, Sprachforscher; Linguistik, Sprachwissenschaft …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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  • linguist — (n.) 1580s, a master of language, one who uses his tongue freely, a hybrid from L. lingua language, tongue (see LINGUAL (Cf. lingual)) + IST (Cf. ist). Meaning a student of language first attested 1640s …   Etymology dictionary

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