English
Etymology
From late Latin sciolus, diminutive of Latin scius ‘knowling’, from scire ‘know’. It first appears in English at the beginning of the 17th century.
Pronunciation
IPA|/ˈsaɪəlɪst/
Noun
en-noun
- One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding.
#*2003: Walter is [...] a dupe to the half-baked speculations of every sciolist from Descartes down to ‘Coglionissimo Borri’, and a pack of other dunces — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 290)
Category: Latin derivatives
te:sciolist
vi:sciolist
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