Other forms: stylists
A stylist is somebody who arranges hair or clothes professionally. A hair stylist, the magazine's stylist, hire a stylist.
In fashion the stylist chooses and assembles the clothes for a shoot and is often the person who decides what the picture actually says. In writing, a stylist is an author admired for the prose itself rather than the story.
1nounstylistSomebody who arranges hair or clothes professionally.
“My stylist suggested a shorter haircut for the summer.”
stylist is a job.
Style plus -ist, from Latin stilus, a writing implement. The spelling with y came from a mistaken link to Greek.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)teyg- — to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad
Latin
stilus — pointed instrument; writing tool; composition; characteristic mode of expression; stem of a plant
Medieval Latin
stylus
Old French
estile
Middle English
stile — writing tool; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression; demeanour; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time
English
style
English, today
stylist
Built from
From style + -ist. stylista. style The noun is derived from Middle English stile (“writing tool; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression; demeanour; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”) (compare semantic development to по́черк (“handwriting, style”)), from Old French estile, or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument; writing tool; composition; characteristic mode of expression; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). a doublet of stylus. The verb is derived from the noun. 2
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