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-ista

TRANSLITERATION -ista

person associated with an activity

DATE
Latin and Late Latin
SENSE
person suffix
FAMILY
Indo-European / Italic
CANONICAL KEY
node:9:-ista:attested:sense:person-suffix

Latin adaptation of Greek -istēs.

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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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DESCENDANTcompeting borrowingproposed
Present-Day English · English, 16th century–today · person suffix

-ist

one who does, makes, practices, or specializes in

SOUND
English also uses -ist in words formed directly on Latin -ista.
MEANING
The person-forming function continues.
SCHOLAR
Douglas Harper
CONFIDENCE
proposed — This is a parallel learned channel.
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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

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This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.

UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
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REVIEWED EDGES
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DEEPEST PATH
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MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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HISTORICAL STEP 012 EDGES
HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES

“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.

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RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

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NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.

The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.

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EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

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