chrestomath
/ˈkɹɛstəˌmæθ/
chrestomath noun: a person devoted to useful learning; especially a language learner.
Noun
chrestomath (plural chrestomaths)
- A person devoted to useful learning; especially a language learner.
- The study of the ancient languages, as now conducted in all good schools, seems to us quite as fit to exercise the attention, the memory, and the powers of analysis, combination, and taste, as any other study that can be suggested. [...] But so long as a certain knowledge of these tongues is...1825, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, pages 463–464
- Rigge’s (Elias, M.A.) “Manual of the Chaldee Language” (Boston, Mass. 1832) is a valuable compendium: it consists, (1.) Of a grammar, chiefly from the German of Professor Winer (2.) A chrestomathy, or hand-book for self-tuition, containig the whole of the Chaldee found in the Old Testament with...1843, Horæ Aramaicæ, page 15
Forms of chrestomath
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Origin of chrestomath
From Ancient Greek χρηστομαθής (khrēstomathḗs).
Questions about chrestomath
- What does chrestomath mean?
- Chrestomath means a person devoted to useful learning; especially a language learner.
- What part of speech is chrestomath?
- Chrestomath is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chrestomath?
- Chrestomath is pronounced /ˈkɹɛstəˌmæθ/.
- What is the plural of chrestomath?
- The plural of chrestomath is chrestomaths.
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