-iste

From -ist +‎ -e.

-iste

1. -ist in the female form

Borrowed from Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής (-istḗs).

• IPA^(key): /ist/

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-iste m or f by sense (plural -istes)

1. -ist

-iste (plural -istes)

1. -istic

From Latin -īvistis (via -īsti).^[1] Example: Italian finiste, from Latin finivistis.

-iste (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

1. used with a stem to form the second-person plural past historic and imperfect subjunctive of regular -ire verbs

• -isti (after masculine nouns)

-iste f pl (non-lemma form of noun-forming suffix)

1. plural of -ista (after feminine nouns)

• -esti, seti, site, stie, tesi

Feminine form of -ists.

-iste

1. Added to nouns to form feminine nouns denoting members/followers of a principle, religion, philosophy, lifestyle, or system of belief (usually named by words in -isms), or who has a certain profession or activity, just like its English cognate -ist.

• -ists (masculine counterpart of -iste)
• -isms (the corresponding profession / activity / system of belief)

Apparently borrowed from Lithuanian -ystė, in words like karalỹstė (“kingdom”).

-iste

2. Used to form names of regions, areas, countries, etc. from the name of the their ruler: karalis “king” -> karaliste “kingdom.”

-iste

1. -ist

• -istes (nonstandard, proscribed)

From Latin -istī (third conjugation) and -īvisti ~ -īistī (fourth conjugation)

-iste

1. Suffix indicating the second-person singular indicative preterite of -er and -ir verbs.

• -aste