autodidact

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach”). By surface analysis, auto- +‎ didact.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

autodidact (plural autodidacts)

1. A self-taught person.

   Synonym: automath

   Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest autodidacts.

   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:

     For an autodidact, for somebody who plays by ear like me, the ukulele is ideal.

Derived terms

• autodidactic
• autodidacticism
• autodidactism

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)

See also

• autonomous learning

See also

• self-taught
• self-educated

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑu̯.toː.diˈdɑkt/, /ˌoː.toː.diˈdɑkt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: auto‧di‧dact
• Rhymes: -ɑkt

Noun

autodidact m (plural autodidacten)

1. autodidact, self-taught person

Derived terms

• autodidactisch

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French autodidacte.

Noun

autodidact m (plural autodidacți)

1. autodidact, self-taught person

Declension

Declension of autodidact

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) autodidact	autodidactul	(niște) autodidacți	autodidacții
genitive/dative	(unui) autodidact	autodidactului	(unor) autodidacți	autodidacților
vocative	autodidactule		autodidacților