Other forms: typists
A typist is somebody employed to type documents. A typing pool of six typists.
It was one of the first office jobs open to women and vanished when everybody typed for themselves. A trained typist was far faster than anybody using a keyboard today.
1nountypistSomebody employed to type documents.
“The typist could manage ninety words a minute without an error.”
typist is a worker.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)tewp-
Ancient Greek
τύπος — mark, impression, type
Latin
typus
Middle English
type — symbol, figure, emblem
English
type
English, today
typist
Built from
From type + -ist. type comes from Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (“mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (“to strike, beat”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA