autodidact

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

37 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: autodidakt — a self-taught person
• Bulgarian: самоук (samouk) — a self-taught person
• Catalan: autodidacte — a self-taught person
• Chinese Mandarin: 自修者 (zìxiū zhě) — a self-taught person
• Chinese Mandarin: 自學者 /自学者 (zìxué zhě) — a self-taught person
• Czech: samouk — a self-taught person
• Danish: autodidakt — a self-taught person
• Dutch: autodidact — a self-taught person
• Dutch: zelfgeleerde — a self-taught person
• Finnish: itseoppinut — a self-taught person
• French: autodidacte — a self-taught person
• Galician: autodidacta — a self-taught person
• German: Autodidakt — a self-taught person
• German: Autodidaktin — a self-taught person
• Hungarian: autodidakta — a self-taught person
• Ido: autodidakto — a self-taught person
• Indonesian: autodidak — a self-taught person
• Indonesian: swadidik — a self-taught person
• Italian: autodidatto — a self-taught person
• Italian: autodidatta — a self-taught person
• Macedonian: самоук (samouk) — a self-taught person
• Norwegian: selvlært — a self-taught person
• Norwegian: autodidakt — a self-taught person
• Polish: samouk — a self-taught person
• Polish: autodydakta — a self-taught person
• Portuguese: autodidata — a self-taught person
• Romanian: autodidact — a self-taught person
• Russian: самоу́чка (samoúčka) — a self-taught person
• Russian: автодида́кт (avtodidákt) — a self-taught person
• Serbo-Croatian: autodìdakt — a self-taught person
• Serbo-Croatian: samòuk — a self-taught person
• Spanish: autodidacta — a self-taught person
• Spanish: autodidacto — a self-taught person
• Swedish: autodidakt — a self-taught person
• Turkish: otodidakt — a self-taught person
• Ukrainian: самоу́к (samoúk) — a self-taught person
• Ukrainian: автодида́кт (avtodydákt) — a self-taught person