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-ist
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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World English Dictionary
| -ist | |
| —suffix | |
| 1. | (forming nouns) a person who performs a certain action or is concerned with something specified: motorist; soloist |
| 2. | (forming nouns) a person who practises in a specific field: physicist; typist |
| 3. | (forming nouns and adjectives) a person who advocates a particular doctrine, system, etc, or relating to such a person or the doctrine advocated: socialist |
| 4. | (forming nouns and adjectives) a person characterized by a specified trait, tendency, etc, or relating to such a person or trait: purist |
| 5. | (forming nouns and adjectives) a person who is prejudiced on the basis specified: sexist; ageist |
| [via Old French from Latin -ista, -istēs, from Greek -istēs] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
-ist
agent noun suffix, also used to indicate adherence to a certain doctrine or custom, from Fr. -iste, from L. -ista, from Gk. -istes, from agential suffix -tes. Variant -ister (e.g. chorister, barister) is from O.Fr. -istre, on false analogy of ministre. Variant -ista is from Sp. form, popularized in Eng.
EXPAND1970s by names of Latin-American revolutionary movements.
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