Standard Lemma guide

-logist

suffix · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /-lədʒɪst/
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suffix

Meaning 1

A person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: -loger

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English -logist From -logy (“study of”) + -ist (“(agent)”).

Across languages

Translations

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: -բան (-ban) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Armenian: -գետ (-get) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Azerbaijani: -şünas — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Catalan: -leg — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 學家 /学家 (xuéjiā) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Czech: -log — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Czech: -ložka — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Dutch: -loog — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Dutch: -loge — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Esperanto: -logo — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Finnish: -logi — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • French: -logue — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • French: -logiste — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • West-Frisian: -looch — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • West-Frisian: -loge — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Galician: -logo — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Galician: -loga — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • German: -loge — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Greek: -λόγος (-lógos) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Greek: -λόγή (-lógí) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Hungarian: -lógus — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Irish: eolaí — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Italian: -logo — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Japanese: 学者 (kakusha) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Kazakh: -танушы (-tanuşy) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Korean: 학자 (hakja) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Northern Kurdish: -nas — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Northern Kurdish: -zan — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Northern Kurdish: -log — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Latin: -logus — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Latin: -loga — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Malay: ahli kaji — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Malay: ahli — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Malay: -logis — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Māori: kaimātai — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -log — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Persian: ـشناس (-šenâs) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Polish: -log — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Portuguese: -logista — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Portuguese: -logo — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Russian: -лог (-log) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Serbo-Croatian: -лог — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Serbo-Croatian: -log — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Slovak: -lóg — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Slovak: -logička — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Spanish: -logo — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Spanish: -loga — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Swedish: -log — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Tajik: -шинос (-šinos) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Uyghur: ـشۇناس (-shunas) — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy
  • Uzbek: -shunos — person who studies or is an expert in the related -logy