-isto
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Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -isto
Suffix[edit]
-isto
- a person who belongs to a profession occupied with
Usage notes[edit]
-isto is not as broad as English -ist.
It is important to distinguish between an -anto, someone who is doing something, and an -isto, someone whose job it is to do something. For example, if you are cooking dinner, you are a kuiranto (“cook (someone who is cooking)”). If you are employed as a chef, you are a kuiristo (“cook (by profession)”).
Also note that in Esperanto, membership is denoted by -ano. For example, a colonist is a koloniano, not a *koloniisto.