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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach”). By surface analysis, auto- + didact.
Pronunciation
Noun
autodidact (plural autodidacts)
- A self-taught person.
- Synonym: automath
Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest autodidacts.
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, zelfgeleerde
- Finnish: itseoppinut
- French: autodidacte (fr) m or f
- Galician: autodidacta m or f
- German: Autodidakt (de) m, Autodidaktin (de) f
- Hungarian: autodidakta (hu)
- Ido: autodidakto (io)
- Indonesian: autodidak (id), swadidik (id)
- Italian: autodidatto m, autodidatta (it) f
- Macedonian: самоук m (samouk)
- Norwegian: selvlært m, autodidakt (no) m
- Polish: samouk (pl) m, autodydakta (pl) m (literary)
- 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: autodidacta (es) m or f
- Swedish: autodidakt (sv) c
- Turkish: otodidakt (tr)
- Ukrainian: самоу́к m (samoúk), автодида́кт m (avtodydákt) (rare)
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Dutch
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑu̯.toː.diˈdɑkt/, /ˌoː.toː.diˈdɑkt/
- Hyphenation: auto‧di‧dact
- Rhymes: -ɑkt
Noun
autodidact m (plural autodidacten)
- autodidact, self-taught person
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French autodidacte.
Noun
autodidact m (plural autodidacți)
- autodidact, self-taught person
Declension