Definitions
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- A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in
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- suffix Added to words to form nouns denoting:
Etymologies
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From Old French -iste and Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής (istēs).
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It is rooted in the Latin terrere, “to frighten,” and the -ist was coined in France to castigate the perpetrators of the Reign of Terror.
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It is rooted in the Latin terrere, “to frighten,” and the -ist was coined in France to castigate the perpetrators of the Reign of Terror.
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