encyclopedist

English

Alternative forms

• encyclopaedist, encyclopediast, encyclopædist

Etymology

encyclopedia +‎ -ist

Noun

encyclopedist (plural encyclopedists)

1. A member of a group of French authors who collaborated in the 18th century in the production of the Encyclopédie, under the direction of Denis Diderot.
2. A person helping to write an encyclopedia.

Related terms

• encyclopedia
• encyclopedic

Translations

member of a group of French authors

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百科全書派／百科全书派 (zh) (bǎikēquánshūpài)

• Czech: encyklopedista m
• Esperanto: enciklopediisto
• French: encyclopédiste (fr) m or f
• German: Enzyklopädist (de) m, Enzyklopädistin f
• Macedonian: енциклопеди́ст m (enciklopedíst)
• Serbo-Croatian: enciklopèdist m
• Spanish: enciclopedista (es) m or f

person helping to write an encyclopedia

• Arabic: مَوْسُوعِيّ (mawsūʕiyy)
• Czech: encyklopedista m
• Dutch: encyclopedist (nl) m, encyclopediste f
• Esperanto: enciklopediisto
• French: encyclopédiste (fr) m or f
• German: Enzyklopädist (de) m, Enzyklopädistin f
• Japanese: 百科事典編纂者 (hyakkajiten hensan-sha)
• Kazakh: энциклопедияшы (énsiklopediäşy)
• Macedonian: енциклопеди́ст m (enciklopedíst)
• Serbo-Croatian: enciklopèdist m
• Spanish: enciclopedista (es) m or f