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Mezzofanti (iou)



Mezzofanti noun. L19.
[Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774-1849), Italian cardinal who mastered over fifty languages.]
A person of exceptional linguistic ability.
G. M. Hopkins We have a..young sucking Mezzofanti among us who could have written in seven languages.
mezzofantic adjective E20.