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pol·y·math       [pol-ee-math] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.

[Origin: 1615–25; < Gk polymaths learned, having learned much, equiv. to poly- poly- + -mathés, adj. deriv. of manthánein to learn]

pol·y·math·ic, adjective
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pol·y·math       (pŏl'ē-māth')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A person of great or varied learning.


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

pol'y·math', pol'y·math'ic adj., po·lym'a·thy (pə-lĭm'ə-thē) n.
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polymath 
1621, from Gk. polymathes "having learned much," from polys "much" (see poly-) + root of manthanein "learn."

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polymath

noun
a person of great and varied learning 

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