sciolist
‘one whose knowledge is superficial’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
La.Lat. sciolus ‘one who knows a little’ < scius ‘knowing’ < scire ‘to know’ < O.F. science ‘knowledge, learning, application; corpus of human knowledge’ < Lat. scientia ‘knowledge, a knowing; expertness’ < sciens ‘intelligent, skilled’ < scire ‘to know’ < scindere ‘to cut, divide’ + -ist < saiuh < skei- < Tamil kappu