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linguistician

noun

Etymology

From linguistic + -ian.

  1. derived from lingua — “tongue, language”
  2. borrowed from linguistisch
  3. suffixed as linguistician — “linguistic + ian”

Definitions

  1. A linguist.

    • A person who studies linguistics is usually referred to as a linguist. The more accurate term 'linguistician' is too much of a tongue-twister to become generally accepted.

The neighborhood

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