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pol⋅y⋅glot

  [pol-ee-glot]
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–adjective
1. able to speak or write several languages; multilingual.
2. containing, composed of, or written in several languages: a polyglot Bible.
–noun
3. a mixture or confusion of languages.
4. a person who speaks, writes, or reads a number of languages.
5. a book, esp. a Bible, containing the same text in several languages.
Origin:
1635–45; < ML polyglōttus < Gk polýglōttos many-tongued. See poly-, -glot

Related forms:
pol⋅y⋅glot⋅ism, noun
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pol·y·glot   (pŏl'ē-glŏt')   
adj.  Speaking, writing, written in, or composed of several languages.
n.  

  1. A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages.

  2. A book, especially a Bible, containing several versions of the same text in different languages.

  3. A mixture or confusion of languages.


[French polyglotte, from Greek poluglōttos : polu-, poly- + glōtta, tongue, language.]
pol'y·glot'ism, pol'y·glot'tism n.
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Word Origin & History

polyglot 
c.1645, from Gk. polyglottos "speaking many languages," lit. "many-tongued," from polys "many" (see poly-) + glotta, Attic variant of glossa "language," lit. "tongue."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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