πολυμαθής

From πολύς (polús, “much”) + μαθ- (math-), the root of μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”), +‎ -ής (-ḗs, adjective suffix).

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

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

     Ἐάν ᾖς φιλομαθής, ἔσει πολυμαθής.

     Eán ēîs philomathḗs, ései polumathḗs.

     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;

     áge nun, epistḗsei lógous semnoùs légein andrôn paróntōn polumathôn kaì dexiôn?

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

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

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

• English: polymath

• “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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bookish idem, page 89.
  • erudite idem, page 281.
  • learned idem, page 483.
  • sage idem, page 731.
  • well read idem, page 974.
  • well-informed idem, page 974.