English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. English typist
From type + -ist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaɪpɪst/
- Hyphenation: typ‧ist
Noun
typist (plural typists)
- A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131:During that Sunday 42 typists in the Traffic Manager's office at Glasgow were working long hours to produce the staff duty diagrams and new timesheets for the improvised Airdrie-Helensburgh and Coatbridge-Balloch services; ...
Derived terms
Translations
person who types
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 打字員 / 打字员 (zh) (dǎzìyuán)
- Danish: maskinskriver c, maskinskriverske c (female)
- Dutch: typist (nl) m, typiste (nl) f
- Esperanto: tajpisto, tajpistino (female)
- Finnish: konekirjoittaja (fi)
- French: dactylo (fr) m or f, dactylographe (fr) m or f
- German: Maschinenschreiber m, Maschinschreiber m (Austrian), Schreibkraft (de) f; (female) Maschinenschreiberin f, Maschinschreiberin f (Austrian), Tippse (de) f (colloquial), Schreibdame f, Tippfräulein n (colloquial, obsolescent), Tippmädchen n (colloquial, obsolete), Tippmamsell f (obsolete), Dactylo f (Swiss, obsolete), Schreibmaschinist m, Schreibmaschinistin f
- Greek: δακτυλογράφος (el) m or f (daktylográfos)
- Gujarati: ટંકલેખક (ṭaṅklekhak)
- Hungarian: gépíró (hu), gépírónő (hu)
- Ingrian: mašinistka
- Irish: clóscríobhaí m
- Italian: dattilografo (it) m, dattilografa (it) f
- Japanese: タイピスト (ja) (taipisuto)
- Korean: 타이피스트 (taipiseuteu), 타자수(打字手) (tajasu)
- Macedonian: дактилогра́ф m (daktilográf), дактилогра́фка f (daktilográfka)
- Māori: kaipatopato
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: maskinskriver m, maskinskriverske f (female)
- Nynorsk: maskinskrivar m
- Polish: maszynistka (pl) f (female only)
- Portuguese: dactilógrafo (pt) m, datilógrafo (pt) m
- Romanian: dactilograf (ro) m, dactilografă (ro) f
- Russian: машини́стка (ru) (mašinístka) (female only)
- Scottish Gaelic: clò-sgrìobhaiche m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дактилограф m, дактилографкиња f
- Latin: daktilograf (sh) m, daktilografkinja (sh) f
- Spanish: mecanógrafo (es) m, mecanógrafa (es) f, dactilógrafo (es) m, dactilógrafa (es) f, taipista c (United States), tipiador m, tipeador m (Latin America)
- Swedish: maskinskrivare c, maskinskriverska c (female), skrivmaskinist c
- Turkish: daktilograf (tr)
- Volapük: klavan, hiklavan (male), jiklavan (female)
- Welsh: teipydd m, teipyddes f
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Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English typist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiˈpɪst/
- Hyphenation: ty‧pist
- Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
typist m (plural typisten, no diminutive, feminine typiste)
- a typist