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-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, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are Language family, directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-E ...
. It is infrequently used in English, which typically uses the suffix
-ist for this purpose.
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Baptista (disambiguation), a name
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Barista
A barista ( , ; ) is a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks and other beverages.
Etymology and inflection
The word comes from Italian, where it means a "bartender" who typically works be ...
, a person who serves coffee
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Calista (disambiguation), a place or name
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Callista (disambiguation), a genus of
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s 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 has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North (UK Parliament constituency), Islington North since 1983. Now an Independent ...
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Evangelista (disambiguation)
Evangelista may refer to:
People Given name
* Evangelista Andreoli (1810–1875), Italian organist, pianist, and teacher
* Evangelista Cittadini, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Alessano (1542–1549)
* Evangelista da Pian di Meleto (c. 1460– ...
, a name of many notable people
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Fashionista (disambiguation), related to fashion
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Protista
A protist ( ) or protoctist is any Eukaryote, eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, Embryophyte, land plant, or fungus. Protists do not form a Clade, natural group, or clade, but are a Paraphyly, paraphyletic grouping of all descendants o ...
, a biological kingdom name for diverse group of
eukaryotic
The eukaryotes ( ) constitute the Domain (biology), domain of Eukaryota or Eukarya, organisms whose Cell (biology), cells have a membrane-bound cell nucleus, nucleus. All animals, plants, Fungus, fungi, seaweeds, and many unicellular organisms ...
microorganisms
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Sandinista
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (, FSLN) is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas () in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augusto César Sandino, who led the Nicaraguan resistan ...
, related to a
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America aft ...
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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