-ist

English

Etymology

From Old French -iste and Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής (istēs).

Suffix

-ist

1. Added to words to form nouns denoting:
   1. a person with a particular creative or academic role;

      artist, one who makes art

      violinist, one who plays a violin

      botanist, one who studies plants

      psychiatrist, one who practices psychiatry

   2. one who proscribes to a particular theological doctrine or religious denomination;

      Calvinist, Baptist, deist

      Note, these are related to -isms: Calvinism, deism

   3. one who owns or manages something;

      capitalist; industrialist

      Note, these are related to -isms: capitalism; industrialism

   4. one who has a certain political tendency;

      Marxist, fascist, pacifist, activist, environmentalist, feminist

      Note, these are related to -isms: Marxism, fascism, pacifism'

   5. a person who holds bigoted, partial views.

      sexist, racist

      Note, these are related to -isms: sexism, racism

Derived terms

[+] English words suffixed with -ist

Translations

One who follows a particular ideology, doctrine, belief system or theory

• Arabic: (nisba) ـي (ar) (-iy) m
• Armenian: -ական (hy) (-akan), -իստ (hy) (-ist)
• Bulgarian: -ист (bg) (-ist) m
• Catalan: -ista (ca) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: -主義者 (cmn), -主义者 (cmn) (-zhǔyìzhě)

• Czech: -ista (cs) m, -istka (cs) f
• Dutch: -ist (nl)
• Esperanto: -isto (eo)
• Finnish: -isti (fi)
• French: -iste (fr) m and f
• Galician: -ista (gl) m and f
• Georgian: -ისტი (ka) (-isti)
• German: -ist (de) m, -istin (de) f
• Greek: -ιστής (el) (-istís) m, -ίστρια (el) (-ístria) f

• Hungarian: -ista (hu)
• Italian: -ista (it)
• Japanese: -主義者 (ja) (-しゅぎしゃ, -shugisha)
• Korean: -주의자 (ko) (-juuija) (-主義者 (ko))
• Latin: ista (la) m
• Malay: -is (ms)
• Norwegian: -ist (no)
• Polish: -ista/-ysta m, -istka/-ystka f
• Portuguese: -ista (pt) m and f
• Romanian: -ist (ro)
• Russian: -ист (ru) (-ist) m, -истка (ru) (-ístka) f
• Spanish: -ista (es) m and f
• Swedish: -ist (sv)
• Turkish: -ist (tr)
• Welsh: -ydd (cy)

A member of a profession or one interested in something

• Armenian: -գետ (hy) (-get), -բան (hy) (-ban)
• Catalan: -ista (ca) n
• Finnish: -isti (fi)

• French: -iste (fr) m and f
• Greek: -λόγος (el) (-lógos) m and f

A person who uses something

• Catalan: -ista (ca) n
• Finnish: -isti (fi)
• French: -iste (fr) m and f

• Greek: -ιστής (el) (-istís) m, -ίστρια (el) (-ístria) f
• Polish: -ista/-ysta m, -istka/-ystka f
• Spanish: -isto (es) m, -ista (es) f

A person who holds biased views

• Catalan: -ista (ca) n
• Czech: -ista (cs) m, -istka (cs) f
• Finnish: -isti (fi)

• French: -iste (fr) m and f
• Greek: -ιστής (el) (-istís) m, -ίστρια (el) (-ístria) f
• Polish: -ista/-ysta m, -istka/-ystka f

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: -ist (sh)
• Interlingua: -ista

• Romanian: -ist m, -istă f

See also

• -ista

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Dutch

Suffix

-ist m

1. appended to a word, it yields a noun which signifies the subject who performs something related to that word

Derived terms

• componist
• gitarist
• toetsenist

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɪst]

Suffix

-ist m (plural -isten, feminine -istin, feminine plural -istinnen)

1. -ist

   Pianist - pianist

   Anarchist - anarchist

   Rassist - racist

Also see: Category:German words suffixed with -ist

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Romanian

Etymology

French -iste.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ist]

Suffix

-ist (plural -iști, feminine -istă, feminine plural -iste)

1. -ist

   pianist - pianist

   anarhist - anarchist

   rasist - racist

Declension

declension of -ist

	singular		plural
gender m	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un -ist	-istul	niște -iști	-iștii
genitive/dative	unui -ist	-istului	unor -iști	-iștilor

Related terms

• -ista
• -ism
• -tor

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Serbo-Croatian

Suffix

-ist

1. Suffix appended to words to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a follower or a profession. Chiefly used for loanwords.