polyglotとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos, “many-tongued, polyglot”), Attic form of πολύγλωσσος (polúglōssos), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + γλῶττα (glôtta, “tongue, language”). poly- +‎ -glot.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒliːɡlɒt/

形容詞

polyglot (not comparable)

1. Versed in, or speaking, many languages.
   • 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “On the Wharf of Enchantment”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, OCLC 6412012, book the first (In the Exchange), page 38:

     For this flyaway son of a Phœnician 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.
   • c. 1646-1647, James Howell, "To the Right Honourable my Lord of D." in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     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