polyglotとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒliːɡlɒt/

形容詞

polyglot (not comparable)

1. Versed in, or speaking, many languages.
   • 1911: Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, p.41

     For this flyaway son of a Phoenician did not seem to wait for the decision of the polyglot Judges of the Emigration Board.

2. Containing, or made up of, several languages.

   a polyglot lexicon

   a polyglot Bible

3. Comprising various linguistic groups.

   A polyglot region without a clearly dominant culture may develop an artificial lingua franca, such as Pidgin English in the South Sea.

派生語

• polyglotism

名詞

polyglot (複数形 polyglots)

1. One who has mastered, notably speaks, several languages.
   • (Can we date this quote by Howell かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     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 翻訳: The Expediency of Revising by Authority our Present Translation: and the Means of Executing such a Revision, publ. by John Exshaw, page 239.

     But ſince that period the biblical apparatus has been much enriched by the publication of polyglots; […] .

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, […]

参考

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