-arist

Morpheme

-arist

Type

suffix

Denotation

agent suffix corresponding to -ary adjectives and -arium nouns

Etymology

suffixal construction from -ary + -ist and -arium + -ist

Evidence

aquarist, dictionarist, literarist, monetarist, vagarist

See Also

-ary, -ist, -(a)r [-ar, -r], -arian, -arian, -ara, -aire, -aria, -ariae, -ario, -eer, -iere, -ier, -yer, -ero, -era, -er, -eiro, -arium, -aria, -arius, -arii, -ari, -arious, -areous, -etary, -etarian, -itary, -itaire, -itarian, -aric, -arism, -arize, -arise

Homographs

Arist