noun
Meaning 1
One who studies and/or collects coins and/or currencies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
numismatist
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/njuːˈmɪzmətɪst/
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noun
Meaning 2
a collector and student of money (and coins in particular)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: numismatologist, coin collector
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: collector, aggregator
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English numismatics 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 numismatist From numismatics + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 錢幣學家 /钱币学家 (qiánbìxuéjiā) — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Chinese Mandarin: 錢幣收藏家 /钱币收藏家 (qiánbìshōucángjiā) — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Czech: numismatik — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Danish: numismatiker — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Dutch: numismaat — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Finnish: numismaatikko — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- French: numismate — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- German: Numismatiker — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- German: Numismatikerin — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Greek: νομισματολόγος (nomismatológos) — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Icelandic: myntfræðingur — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Italian: numismatico — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Japanese: 貨幣学者 (kahē gakusha) — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Japanese: 貨幣収集家 (kahē shūshūka) — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Polish: numizmatyk — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Portuguese: numismata — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Russian: нумизмат (numizmat) — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Spanish: numismático — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Spanish: numismática — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Swedish: numismatiker — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Turkish: nümismat — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Volapük: könädavan — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Volapük: hikönädavan — one who collects coins and/or currencies
- Volapük: jikönädavan — one who collects coins and/or currencies