publicist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French publiciste, equivalent to public +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

publicist (plural publicists)

1. A person whose job is to publicize information or events; a publicity agent; a public relations agent or worker.
   • 2014 June 27, Holly Yan, “Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bobby Womack dies”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Legendary soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday, Womack’s publicist said. He was 70.

2. A journalist, often a commentator, who focusses on politics.
3. (now rare and archaic) A scholar, of public or international law.

Translations

person whose job is to publicize

• Bulgarian: говори́тел (bg) m (govorítel)
• Dutch: publiciteitsagent m
• French: agent de publicité m, agent publicitaire m, publicitaire (fr) m or f
• Georgian: ჟურნალისტი (žurnalisṭi)
• Italian: pubblicista (it) m, pubblicitario (it) m
• Māori: kaiwhakahahaki
• Romanian: agent de publicitate (ro) m
• Russian: специали́ст/аге́нт по печа́ти и рекла́ме m (specialíst/agént po pečáti i rekláme)

a journalist who focusses on politics

• Belarusian: публіцы́ст m (publicýst), публіцы́стка f (publicýstka)
• Bulgarian: публици́ст (bg) m (publicíst), публици́стка f (publicístka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政論家 / 政论家 (zh) (zhènglùnjiā)

• Czech: publicista (cs) m, publicistka (cs) f
• French: publiciste (fr) m or f
• German: Publizist (de) m, Publizistin (de) f
• Hungarian: közíró (hu), publicista (hu)
• Italian: pubblicista (it) m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: publisist m

  Nynorsk: publisist m

• Polish: publicysta (pl) m, publicystka (pl) f
• Romanian: publicist (ro) m, publicistă (ro) f
• Russian: публици́ст (ru) m (publicíst), публици́стка (ru) f (publicístka)
• Spanish: publicista m or f
• Ukrainian: публіци́ст m (publicýst), публіци́стка f (publicýstka)

See also

• publisher

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “publicist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French publiciste.

Noun

publicist m (plural publiciști)

1. publicist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	publicist	publicistul	publiciști	publiciștii
genitive-dative	publicist	publicistului	publiciști	publiciștilor
vocative	publicistule		publiciștilor

Swedish

Etymology

From either French publiciste or German Publizist, from Latin pūblicum, from pūblicus. Attested since 1824.

Noun

publicist c

1. publicist (journalist)

Declension

Declension of publicist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	publicist	publicists
	definite	publicisten	publicistens
plural	indefinite	publicister	publicisters
	definite	publicisterna	publicisternas

Synonyms

• tidningsman

Derived terms

• publicistisk

Related terms

• publicera
• publik
• publikation

References

• “publicist”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “publicist”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “publicist”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)