different between sciolist vs factotum

English

Etymology

From Late Latin sciolus, diminutive of Latin scius (“knowing”), from sci? (“I know”) +? -ist. It first appears in English at the beginning of the 17th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sa??l?st/
• Hyphenation: sci?o?list

Noun

sciolist (plural sciolists)

1. One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding.
   • Alfred Marshall (1885) The Present Position of Economics: Among the bad results of the narrowness of the work of English economists early in the century perhaps the most unfortunate was the opportunity which it gave to sciolists to quote and misapply economic dogmas.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sciolist.

Related terms

• sciolism
• sciolistic
• sciolistical
• sciolistically

Translations

See also

• jack of all trades
• know-it-all

Anagrams

• solicits

English

Etymology

From New Latin factotum (literally “do everything”), from Latin fac, present singular imperative of faci? (“do, make”) + t?tum (“everything”); attested in English from 1566.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fæk?t??.t?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /fæk?to?.t?m/

Noun

factotum (plural factotums)

1. (dated) A person having many diverse activities or responsibilities.
2. (dated) A general servant.

   Synonym: do-all

   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Chapter 73,

     I had almost forgotten Monee, the grinning old man who prepared our meal. […] He was Po-Po’s factotum—cook, butler, and climber of the bread-fruit and cocoa-nut trees; and, added to all else, a mighty favourite with his mistress; with whom he would sit smoking and gossiping by the hour.

3. An individual employed to do all sorts of duties.
4. A jack of all trades.

   Synonyms: handyman, jack of all trades, sciolist
5. A printer's ornament forming a decorative border into which any letter can be inserted to mark the beginning of a section of text.

Translations

References

• factotum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• Factotum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Possibly directly or else via French from New Latin factotum (literally “do everything”), from Latin fac, present singular imperative of faci? (“do, make”) + t?tum (“everything”); attested in Dutch from 1605.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?k?to?.t?m/
• Hyphenation: fac?to?tum

Noun

factotum m (plural factotums, diminutive factotumpje n)

1. factotum (jack-of-all-trades)

Synonyms

• manusje-van-alles
• klusjesman

Italian

Noun

factotum m (invariable)

1. An individual employed to do all sorts of duties.