Translation
musician
Word origin
Built in Esperanto from muziko plus the professional suffix -ist-. Muziko goes back through Latin to Greek mousike tekhne, the art of the Muses, so a musician is still literally in the Muses' trade.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation on a Greek root
- Root
- muziko + -ist-
- English cognates
- music, museum, mosaic
Examples
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The musicians played on the square.
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She is a musician and teaches at the school.
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The young musician picked up his guitar and began.
A clean seam: is the art, -- is the person who does it for a living, and is the musician. The same suffix gives , o and , and it pairs with -an- for a mere member rather than a professional. Come the village contest in this chapter's story, the are the ones on the platform and everyone else is the audience.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 34.