typist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English type

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)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English typist

From type + -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪpɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: typ‧ist

Noun

typist (plural typists)

1. A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
   • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131:

     During that Sunday 42 typists in the Traffic Manager's office at Glasgow were working long hours to produce the staff duty diagrams and new timesheets for the improvised Airdrie-Helensburgh and Coatbridge-Balloch services; ...

Derived terms

• audio-typist
• copy typist
• nontypist
• shorthand typist
• touch-typist

Translations

person who types

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打字員 / 打字员 (zh) (dǎzìyuán)

• Danish: maskinskriver c, maskinskriverske c (female)
• Dutch: typist (nl) m, typiste (nl) f
• Esperanto: tajpisto, tajpistino (female)
• Finnish: konekirjoittaja (fi)
• French: dactylo (fr) m or f, dactylographe (fr) m or f
• German: Maschinenschreiber m, Maschinschreiber m (Austrian), Schreibkraft (de) f; (female) Maschinenschreiberin f, Maschinschreiberin f (Austrian), Tippse (de) f (colloquial), Schreibdame f, Tippfräulein n (colloquial, obsolescent), Tippmädchen n (colloquial, obsolete), Tippmamsell f (obsolete), Dactylo f (Swiss, obsolete), Schreibmaschinist m, Schreibmaschinistin f
• Greek: δακτυλογράφος (el) m or f (daktylográfos)
• Gujarati: ટંકલેખક (ṭaṅklekhak)
• Hungarian: gépíró (hu), gépírónő (hu)
• Ingrian: mašinistka
• Irish: clóscríobhaí m
• Italian: dattilografo (it) m, dattilografa (it) f
• Japanese: タイピスト (ja) (taipisuto)
• Korean: 타이피스트 (taipiseuteu), 타자수(打字手) (tajasu)
• Macedonian: дактилогра́ф m (daktilográf), дактилогра́фка f (daktilográfka)
• Māori: kaipatopato
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maskinskriver m, maskinskriverske f (female)

  Nynorsk: maskinskrivar m

• Polish: maszynistka (pl) f (female only)
• Portuguese: dactilógrafo (pt) m, datilógrafo (pt) m
• Romanian: dactilograf (ro) m, dactilografă (ro) f
• Russian: машини́стка (ru) (mašinístka) (female only)
• Scottish Gaelic: clò-sgrìobhaiche m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дактилограф m, дактилографкиња f

  Latin: daktilograf (sh) m, daktilografkinja (sh) f

• Spanish: mecanógrafo (es) m, mecanógrafa (es) f, dactilógrafo (es) m, dactilógrafa (es) f, taipista c (United States), tipiador m, tipeador m (Latin America)
• Swedish: maskinskrivare c, maskinskriverska c (female), skrivmaskinist c
• Turkish: daktilograf (tr)
• Volapük: klavan, hiklavan (male), jiklavan (female)
• Welsh: teipydd m, teipyddes f

See also

• clerk
• data entry
• stenographer

Anagrams

• spitty

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English typist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈpɪst/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ty‧pist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

typist m (plural typisten, no diminutive, feminine typiste)

1. a typist