linguist
noun /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
/ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
- a person who knows several foreign languages well
- She's an excellent linguist.
- I'm afraid I'm no linguist (= I find foreign languages difficult).
- a person who studies languages or linguistics
- a computational linguist
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin lingua ‘language’ + -ist.