n. 1. A learned person; a scholar. 2. A person with savant syndrome. [French, learned, savant, from Old French, present participle of savoir, to know, from Vulgar Latin sapēre, from Latin sapere, to be wise; see sep- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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