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Apr. 11, 2015

polyglot \POL-ee-glot\ adjective 1. containing, composed of, or written in several languages: a polyglot Bible. 2. able to speak or write several languages; multilingual. Quotes The first manifestations of the avant-garde were cosmopolitan and polyglot. Marinetti writes his manifestos in French and polemicizes with the Russian Cubo-Futurists in Moscow and St. Petersburg… -- Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire, translated by Rachel Phillips, 1974 Origin Polyglot stems from the Greek word polýglōttos, meaning "many-tongued." The combining form -glot comes from the Greek word for "tongue" and can mean "having a tongue" or "communicating in a language."

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