polymath

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.

   To be thought and held Polumathes and Polihistors.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυμαθής (polumathḗs, “having learnt much”), first attested in 1624. From πολύς (polús, “much”) (for more, see poly-) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”). Compare opsimath, philomath, polyhistor, polymathic, polymathist, and polymathy.

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