vocalist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs

Proto-Italic *wōks

Latin vōx

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin vōcālisbor.

Middle English vocal

English vocal

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 vocalist

From vocal + -ist.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊkəlɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

vocalist (plural vocalists)

1. A singer; a person who likes to sing.

   lead vocalist

   amateur vocalist

   talented vocalist

Derived terms

• backup vocalist
• lead vocalist

Translations

singer

• Bulgarian: певец m (pevec)
• Czech: vokalista m, vokalistka f
• Danish: vokalist c, sanger (da) c
• Faroese: sangari m, sangarinna f
• Finnish: laulaja (fi), vokalisti (fi)
• French: vocaliste (fr) m or f
• German: Sänger (de) m (male), Sängerin (de) f (female), Vokalist (de) m (male), Vokalistin f (female)
• Hungarian: énekes (hu), énekesnő (hu)
• Irish: amhránaí m
• Italian: cantante (it)
• Japanese: ボーカリスト (ja) (bōkarisuto)
• Korean: 보컬리스트 (bokeolliseuteu)
• Kyrgyz: обончу (oboncu)
• Latin: vocalistus
• Latvian: vokālists m, vokāliste f
• Māori: reo waiata, kaiwaiata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vokalist m

  Nynorsk: vokalist m

• Polish: wokalista (pl) m, wokalistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: vocalista (pt) m or f
• Russian: вокали́ст (ru) m (vokalíst)
• Spanish: vocalista (es) m or f

Anagrams

• Lovatics, Voltaics

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Vokalist. By surface analysis, vocal +‎ -ist.

Noun

vocalist m (plural vocaliști)

1. vocalist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vocalist	vocalistul	vocaliști	vocaliștii
genitive-dative	vocalist	vocalistului	vocaliști	vocaliștilor
vocative	vocalistule		vocaliștilor

Further reading

• “vocalist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026