-ist

suffix

/-ɪst/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist From Middle English -ist, -iste, from Old French -iste and Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής (-istḗs), from -ίζω (-ízō, “-ize, -ise”, verbal suffix) + -τής (-tḗs, agent-noun suffix). Equivalent to -ism + -t. Doublet of -ista. Sense 1.9 is influenced by Esperanto -isto.

derived from -isto
derived from -ιστής
derived from -ista
derived from -iste
inherited from -ist

Definitions

1
Added to words to form nouns denoting
Added to words to form nouns denoting:
- botanist, one who studies plants
- psychiatrist, one who practices psychiatry

The neighborhood

neighbor-ast
neighbor-er
neighbor-ista
neighbor-ite
neighbor-or

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA