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-logist

-logist

English

Suffix

-logist

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

Usage notes

Relatively few terms are directly derived using this suffix. Terms ending in logist are often derived from words formed in other languages or by suffixing -ist to a word ending in logy, as dermatologist = dermatology + -ist and genealogist = genealogy + -ist.

Derived terms

See -logy#Derived terms

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Translations

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

Armenian: -բան ‎(-ban), -գետ ‎(-get)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 學家 (zh), 学家 (zh) ‎(xuéjiā)
Czech: -lóg m, -ložka f
French: -logue (fr)
German: -loge (de) m, -login f
Greek: -λόγος (el) m ‎(-lógos), -λόγή f ‎(-lógí)
Hungarian: -lógus
Irish: eolaí m
Italian: -logo m sg

Japanese: 学者 (ja) ‎(がくしゃ, kakusha)
Latin: -logus m, -loga f
Malay: ahli kaji, ahli, -logis
Polish: -log (pl) m, -log (pl) f
Portuguese: -logista (pt) m, f, -logo (pt) m
Russian: -лог (ru) m ‎(-log)
Slovak: -lóg m, -logička f
Spanish: -logo (es) m, -loga f
Swedish: -log (sv) c