colorist

English

Alternative forms

colourist (UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, India)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs

Proto-Italic *kelōs

Old Latin colōs

Latin color

Old French color

Anglo-Norman colurbor.

Middle English colour

English color

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English colorist

From color + -ist.

Noun

colorist (plural colorists)

One who colors; an artist with a talent for coloring.
- 2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 August 2023:
  Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak of North Carolina, and I have receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.
A hairdresser who is a specialist in coloring and tinting hair.
(loosely) One who believes in or subscribes to colorism.

References

OED2

Anagrams

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Romanian