-ist
(Greek > Latin: a suffix; one who believes in; one who is engaged in; someone who does something)
ethologist
ethonobotanist
etiologist
1. Anyone who studies etiology or the science of cause.
2. Someone who strives to find the causes of diseases via research and various forms of medical investigations.
2. Someone who strives to find the causes of diseases via research and various forms of medical investigations.
1. A lexicographer who specializes in etymology.
2. A specialist in etymology.
2. A specialist in etymology.
Etymologists usually try to reconstruct information about languages that are too old for any direct information to be known; since so many have no written records for examination.
By comparing words in related languages, we may learn about their shared parent language. In this way, some word roots have been found which can be traced all the way back to the origin of the Indo-European language family.
An etymologist is a scholar who knows the difference between an etymologist and an entomologist.
eucharist
Someone who makes a substitution of an agreeable, an acceptable, or inoffensive expression for another one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant.
evangelist, Evangelist
1. Usually capitalized, one of the four writers of the New Testament Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John.
2. An itinerant (traveling from place to place) or a missionary preacher; a revivalist or a promoter, organizer, or preacher at a religious revival meeting, especially one for evangelical Christians.
3. In the Mormon Church, a patriarch.
2. An itinerant (traveling from place to place) or a missionary preacher; a revivalist or a promoter, organizer, or preacher at a religious revival meeting, especially one for evangelical Christians.
3. In the Mormon Church, a patriarch.
exobiologist
1. One who studies life that originates on the outside, or exterior, of an organism.
2. One who studies extraterrestrial life.
2. One who studies extraterrestrial life.
exodontist
exorcist, exorcists
1. In general, any one who exorcises or professes to exorcise demons, in particular, someone who is ordained by a Catholic bishop for this office.
2. A person who forces an evil spirit to leave someone, or a place, by using prayers or magic.
3. Someone who removes the bad effects of a frightening or upsetting event: "The exorcist said it would take a long time to exorcise the memory of the accident so the woman could live with less mental stress."
4. Etymology: from about 1384, in the Wycliffe Bible; borrowed from Late Latin exorcista, from Greek exorkistes, from exorkizein, "to exorcise".
2. A person who forces an evil spirit to leave someone, or a place, by using prayers or magic.
3. Someone who removes the bad effects of a frightening or upsetting event: "The exorcist said it would take a long time to exorcise the memory of the accident so the woman could live with less mental stress."
4. Etymology: from about 1384, in the Wycliffe Bible; borrowed from Late Latin exorcista, from Greek exorkistes, from exorkizein, "to exorcise".
expansionist
extortionist
Anyone who commits a criminal offense which occurs when a person either unlawfully obtains money, property, or services from someone, an entity, or an institution through illegal coercion or intimidation.
extremist
faunist
1. A person who studies or writes about animal life; a naturalist.
2. A student or writer about faunae.
2. A student or writer about faunae.
feminist, feministic, femininistic
1. Of or pertaining to feminism, or to women.
2. An advocate of feminism.
2. An advocate of feminism.
