different between multilingualism vs polyglot

English

Etymology

From multilingual +? -ism.

Noun

multilingualism (usually uncountable, plural multilingualisms)

1. the condition of being multilingual; the ability to speak multiple languages

Antonyms

• monolingualism, unilingualism

Related terms

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• polyglott (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (polúgl?ttos, “many-tongued, polyglot”), Attic form of ??????????? (polúgl?ssos), from ????? (polús, “many”) + ?????? (glôtta, “tongue, language”). poly- +? -glot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?li??l?t/

Adjective

polyglot (not comparable)

1. Versed in, or speaking, many languages.
2. Containing, or made up of, several languages.

3. Comprising various linguistic groups.

Derived terms

• polyglotism

Translations

Noun

polyglot (plural polyglots)

1. One who has mastered, notably speaks, several languages.
   • c. 1646-1647, James Howell, "To the Right Honourable my Lord of D." in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     a polyglot, or good linguist

2. A publication containing several versions of the same text, or the same subject matter in several languages; especially, the Bible in several languages.
   • 1792, Archbishop William Newcome, An Historical View of the English Biblical Translations: The Expediency of Revising by Authority our Present Translation: and the Means of Executing such a Revision, publ. by John Exshaw, page 239.

3. A mixture of languages or nomenclatures.
4. (programming) A program written in multiple programming languages.
5. (computing) A file that can be validly interpreted as multiple formats.
   • 2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook (page 148)

     For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on. […] There are various example polyglots, including a PDF file that is also a valid HTML file with JavaScript, […]

Translations

See also

• monoglot
• monolingual
• bilingual
• hyperpolyglot
• trilingual
• multilingual
• parallel text

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol??lot]

Noun

polyglot m

1. (person): A polyglot

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (polúgl?ttos, “many-tongued, polyglot”), Attic form of ??????????? (polúgl?ssos), from ????? (polús, “many”) + ?????? (glôtta, “tongue, language”). poly- +? -glot.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French polyglotte, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (polúgl?ttos, “many-tongued, polyglot”), from ????? (polús, “many”) + ?????? (glôtta, “tongue, language”) (Attic variant of ?????? (glôssa)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po?.li??l?t/
• Hyphenation: po?ly?glot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

polyglot m or f (plural polyglotten, diminutive polyglotje n, feminine polyglotte)

1. A polyglot, one who has mastered several languages.
2. A publication with an original texts along with translations in several languages; especially of a version of the Bible.

Alternative forms

• (polyglot publication): polyglotte (archaic in the other sense)

Synonyms

(person; publication):

• meertalige
• veeltalige

Derived terms

• polyglottisch

Descendants

• Afrikaans: poliglot

Adjective

polyglot (not comparable)

1. (rare) polyglot

   Synonym: polyglottisch

Inflection