{{wiktionary, -ista
-ista is a suffix that denotes a specialist or performer of a certain topic, or an advocate of a belief. It is a regular suffix in
Romance languages
The Romance languages, sometimes referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language ...
. It is infrequently used in English, which typically uses the suffix
-ist
Ist or IST may refer to:
Information Science and Technology
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Science and Technology
* Graduate School / Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Japan
* Graduate School ...
for this purpose.
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Baptista (disambiguation), a name
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Barista
A barista (; ; from the Italian/Spanish for "bartender") is a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks.
Etymology and inflection
The word ''barista'' comes from Italian where it means a male ...
, a person who serves coffee
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Calista (disambiguation), a place or name
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Callista (disambiguation), a genus of
molluscs or a place or name
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Corbynista, a supporter of
Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. On the political left of the Labour Party, Corbyn describes himself as a socialist ...
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Evangelista (disambiguation)
Evangelista may refer to:
People Given name
* Evangelista Andreoli (1810–1875) was an Italian organist, pianist, and teacher
* Evangelista Cittadini, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Alessano (1542–1549)
* Evangelista da Pian di Meleto (c. ...
, a name of many notable people
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Fashionista (disambiguation)
Fashionista or fashionistas may also refer to:
*Fashionista, an avid leader and follower of fashion
* Fashionista (website), a website about fashion
Entertainment
* ''Fashionista'' (TV series), an Australian TV series
* "Fashionista", a song by ...
, related to fashion
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Protista
A protist () is any eukaryotic organism (that is, an organism whose cells contain a cell nucleus) that is not an animal, plant, or fungus. While it is likely that protists share a common ancestor (the last eukaryotic common ancestor), the exc ...
, a biological kingdom name for diverse group of
eukaryotic
Eukaryotes () are organisms whose Cell (biology), cells have a cell nucleus, nucleus. All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms, are Eukaryotes. They belong to the group of organisms Eukaryota or Eukarya, which is one of the ...
microorganisms
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Sandinista
The Sandinista National Liberation Front ( es, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas () in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augusto Cà ...
, related to a
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
n political party
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Stylista, an American fashion-themed reality-television competition
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Zapatista (disambiguation), a follower of Emiliano Zapata or his ideas
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