The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words by Anu Garg

Author:Anu Garg [Garg, Anu]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2007-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

Not to spread too much negativity, here are a few words with positive meanings. Then again, you could use them in insults, too, as in telling someone, “You aren’t exactly a polyhistor, are you?”

POLYHISTOR

A person of great or wide learning.

A polyhistor is a person with encyclopedic knowledge, and so is a polymath. These two words are perfect synonyms but are really exceptions. There are not a lot of words where you could replace one with another without at least a slight change in the shade of meaning. On the surface, two words may appear similar, but look deeper and you will surely find subtle nuances, each word carrying its own flavor of meaning, as if created to fulfill its destiny where no other word can.

The word came from Greek polyistor, from poly- (much, many) and histor (learned). Polymath is from manthanein (to learn).

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