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Dutch
Etymology
From duizend (“thousand”) + poot (“leg”). First attested in the late 18th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdœy̯.zəntˌpoːt/
- Hyphenation: dui‧zend‧poot
Noun
duizendpoot m (plural duizendpoten, diminutive duizendpootje n)
- (zoology) a centipede, animal of the class Chilopoda
2011, Dick Laan, Pinkeltje en de flonkersteen:Over het bospad kwam een lange rij duizendpoten aanstappen.- A long line of centipedes came treading closer over the forest path.
- a person of many talents, especially one good at multi-tasking; a jack of all trades
- 2014, Willem Kuiper, "Luna en Fortuna", in Andrea van Leerdam & Orlanda S. H. Lie & Martine Meuwese & Maria Patijn (eds.), Kennis in beeld. Denken en doen in de Middeleeuwen, Uitgeverij Verloren page 48.
De bedenker van dit allegorische personage was de Romein Boëthius (ca. 480-525), een intellectuele duizendpoot en een van de meest invloedrijke scharnieren tussen het laat-antieke Romeinse Rijk en de Latijnse Middeleeuwen.- The inventor of this allegorical character was the Roman Boethius (ca. 480-525), an intellectual man of many talents and one of the most influential pivots between the late-antique Roman Empire and the Latin Middle Ages.