English
hyperpolyglot
From hyper- + polyglot.
A compound of hyper- + polyglot
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’
English hyper-
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς ‘a lot of, many’
Ancient Greek πολῠ́γλωσσος ‘speaking many languages, multilingual’
Attic Greek πολύγλωττος ‘speaking many languages, multilingual’
English polyglot
Today it means
noun One who masters or becomes fluent in many different languages (six or more).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hyperpolyglot