autodidact

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɔːtoʊˈdaɪdækt/

Noun

autodidact (plural autodidacts)

A self-taught person.
Synonym: automath

Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest autodidacts.

See also

autonomous learning

Derived terms

Translations

a self-taught person

Albanian: autodidakt (sq)
Bulgarian: самоук (bg) (samouk)
Catalan: autodidacte (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自修者 (zìxiū zhě), 自學者, 自学者 (zìxué zhě)
Czech: samouk (cs) m
Danish: autodidakt (da) c
Dutch: autodidact (nl) m
Finnish: itseoppinut
French: autodidacte (fr) m or f
German: Autodidakt (de) m
Hungarian: autodidakta (hu)

Ido: autodidakto (io)
Italian: autodidatto m, autodidatta (it) f
Norwegian: selvlært m, autodidakt (no) m
Polish: samouk (pl) m
Portuguese: autodidata (pt) m or f
Romanian: autodidact (ro) m
Russian: самоу́чка (ru) m or f (samoúčka), автодида́кт (ru) m (avtodidákt)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: autodìdakt (sh) m, samòuk (sh) m
Spanish: autodidacto m, autodidacta (es) f
Swedish: autodidakt (sv) c

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɑu̯.toː.diˈdɑkt/, /ˌoː.toː.diˈdɑkt/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: auto‧di‧dact
Rhymes: -ɑkt

Noun

autodidact m (plural autodidacten)

autodidact, self-taught person

Derived terms

autodidactisch

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