Where does “journalist” come from?
Journalist comes from English journal plus the suffix -ista from Latin, derived from Ancient Greek -ιστής, which comes from the verb -ίζω and ultimately from Latin dies meaning day.
journalist (English): The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in...
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- The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in...
Ancestry of “journalist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | journal | A diary or daily record of a person,... |
| 2 | Middle English | journal | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | jurnal | daily |
| 4 | Dutch | journaal | a TV or radio news program; a logbook of a ship;... |
| 5 | French | journal | That is relative to each day; journal; diary,... |
| 6 | Old French | journal | daily |
| 7 | Latin | diurnālis | diurnal of the day; that takes place during the day |
| 8 | Latin | diurnus | of the day; daily; day |
| 9 | Latin | diēs | A day, particularly |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | djēm | accusative singular of *djous |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | *djous | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dyḗws | sky, heaven; sky god |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | dyéws | sky, heaven |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | dyew- | to be bright; sky, heaven |