-iste

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See also: iste, işte, -ište, and -iště

Dutch

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Etymology

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From -ist +‎ -e.

Suffix

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-iste

  1. -ist in the female form

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής (-istḗs).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ist/
  • Audio:(file)

Suffix

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-iste m or f by sense (plural -istes)

  1. -ist

Suffix

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-iste (plural -istes)

  1. -istic

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Danish: -ist
  • English: -ist
  • Icelandic: -isti
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -ist
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: -ist
  • Romanian: -ist
  • Swedish: -ist
  • Turkish: -ist

Italian

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Etymology 1

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From Latin -īvistis (via -īsti).[1] Example: Italian finiste, from Latin finivistis.

Suffix

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-iste (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

  1. used with a stem to form the second-person plural past historic and imperfect subjunctive of regular -ire verbs

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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  • -isti (after masculine nouns)

Suffix

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-iste f pl (non-lemma form of noun-forming suffix)

  1. plural of -ista (after feminine nouns)

References

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  1. ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 146

Anagrams

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Latvian

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Etymology 1

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Feminine form of -ists.

Suffix

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-iste

  1. Added to nouns to form feminine nouns denoting members/followers of a principle, religion, philosophy, lifestyle, or system of belief (usually named by words in -isms), or who has a certain profession or activity, just like its English cognate -ist.
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  • -ists (masculine counterpart of -iste)
  • -isms (the corresponding profession / activity / system of belief)

Etymology 2

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Apparently borrowed from Lithuanian -ystė, in words like karalỹstė (kingdom).

Suffix

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-iste

  1. Used to form names of regions, areas, countries, etc. from the name of the their ruler: karalis “king” -> karaliste “kingdom.”
Derived terms
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Norman

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Suffix

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-iste

  1. -ist

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Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin -istī (third conjugation) and -īvisti ~ -īistī (fourth conjugation)

Suffix

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-iste

  1. Suffix indicating the second-person singular indicative preterite of -er and -ir verbs.

See also

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