Ancient Greek

Adjective

πολυμαθής • ‎(polumathḗs) m, f ‎(neuter πολυμαθές); third declension

1. Having learnt much, knowing much
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Demonicus 18

     Ἐάν ᾖς φιλομαθής, ἔσει πολυμαθής.

     If you have a love of learning, you will become educated.

   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1175

     ἄγε νυν, ἐπιστήσει λόγους σεμνοὺς λέγειν ἀνδρῶν παρόντων πολυμαθῶν καὶ δεξιῶν;

     And now, will you know how to speak of solemn things to these learned and upright men?

Inflection

Derived terms

• πολυμαθέω ‎(polumathéō)
• πολυμαθία ‎(polumathía)
• πολυμαθημοσύνη ‎(polumathēmosúnē)
• πολυμαθήμων ‎(polumathḗmōn)

Related terms

• πολυμαθῶς ‎(polumathôs)
• πολυμαθέστερος ‎(polumathésteros)
• πολυμαθέστατος ‎(polumathéstatos)

Descendants

• English: polymath

References

• πολυμαθής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πολυμαθής in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πολυμαθής» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bookish idem, page 89.
  • erudite idem, page 281.
  • learned idem, page 483.
  • sage idem, page 731.
  • well-informed idem, page 974.
  • well read idem, page 974.