instrumentalist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English instrumental

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

English instrumentalist

From instrumental + -ist.

Noun

instrumentalist (plural instrumentalists)

1. One who plays a musical instrument, as distinguished from a vocalist.
2. (philosophy) An adherent of instrumentalism.

Derived terms

• brass instrumentalist
• multi-instrumentalist
• noninstrumentalist
• reed instrumentalist
• string instrumentalist
• wind instrumentalist

Translations

one who plays a musical instrument

• Catalan: instrumentista m or f
• French: instrumentiste (fr) m or f
• Greek: οργανοπαίχτης (el) m (organopaíchtis), οργανοπαίκτρια (el) f (organopaíktria)
• Icelandic: hljóðfæraleikari m
• Italian: strumentista (it) m or f
• Māori: kaiwhakatangi
• Polish: instrumentalista (pl) m, instrumentalistka (pl) f
• Romanian: instrumentalist (ro)
• Spanish: instrumentista (es) m or f
• Swedish: instrumentalist (sv) c
• Vietnamese: nhạc công (vi)

Romanian

Etymology

From instrumental +‎ -ist.

Noun

instrumentalist m (plural instrumentaliști)

1. instrumentalist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	instrumentalist	instrumentalistul	instrumentaliști	instrumentaliștii
genitive-dative	instrumentalist	instrumentalistului	instrumentaliști	instrumentaliștilor
vocative	instrumentalistule		instrumentaliștilor

References

• instrumentalist in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN