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Linguist Very Common

Origin: Greek suffix -ist

Linguist has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a specialist in linguistics

2

a person who speaks more than one language

3

One who studies linguistics.

See Also
quirkian weinreichian hellenicist anatolianist austroasiaticist iranianist pidginist iranicist
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
scientist person
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
computational linguist grammarian Hebraist lexicographer neurolinguist phonetician phonologist psycholinguist semanticist sociolinguist bilingual translator

Origin

The word linguist comes from the Latin word lingua, meaning "tongue" or "language," combined with the suffix -ist. It originally referred to a person who studies languages.

Rhyming Words
ist nist kist uist hist bist dist list jist wist mist sist iist cist rist gist fist trist feist boist
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