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Alternative forms

chimist, chymist (obsolete)

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.

Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.

Medieval Latin alchēmia

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Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.

New Latin chimiabor.

Middle French chymie

French chimie

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ιστής (-istḗs)der.

Latin -istabor.

French -iste

French chimistebor.

English chemist

First attested 1562, borrowed from French Category:English terms borrowed from French#CHEMIST Category:English terms derived from French#CHEMIST chimiste, from Medieval Latin Category:English terms derived from Medieval Latin#CHEMIST chimista, from earlier alchimista (literally “alchemist”), from Arabic Category:English terms derived from Arabic#CHEMIST الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), with article اَلْ (al-) + Ancient Greek Category:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#CHEMIST χυμεία (khumeía, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “fluid”), from χυμός (khumós, “juice”), from χέω (khéō, “to pour”). The pronunciation with initial /k/ is based on the Graeco-Latin etymology rather than on the French word, where the pronunciation with /ʃ/ is based on native French orthography. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)Category:Requests for references for etymologies in English entries#CHEMIST

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As a synonym for pharmacy, a metonymous use of the proprietor to stand for their shop.

Pronunciation

enPR: kem'ĭst, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛmɪst/Category:English 2-syllable words#CHEMIST Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CHEMIST
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Noun

chemist (plural chemists)Category:English lemmas#CHEMIST Category:English nouns#CHEMIST Category:English countable nouns#CHEMIST Category:English entries with incorrect language header#CHEMIST Category:Pages with entries#CHEMIST Category:Pages with 1 entry#CHEMIST

A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 60:
  It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.
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- 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 August 2020:
  As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
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(chiefly British Category:British English#CHEMIST, Australia Category:Australian English#CHEMIST, New Zealand Category:New Zealand English#CHEMIST, Ghana Category:Ghanaian English#CHEMIST, Nigeria Category:Nigerian English#CHEMIST) Synonym of pharmacist.
(chiefly British Category:British English#CHEMIST, Australia Category:Australian English#CHEMIST, New Zealand Category:New Zealand English#CHEMIST, South Africa Category:South African English#CHEMIST) Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.
(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#CHEMIST) An alchemist.

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Translations

person working in chemistry

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Afrikaans: chemikus (af)Category:Terms with Afrikaans translations#CHEMIST
Albanian: kimist (sq) mCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#CHEMIST
Arabic: كِيمِيَائِيّ m (kīmiyāʔiyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CHEMIST
Armenian: քիմիկոս (hy) (kʻimikos)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#CHEMIST
Asturian: químicu mCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#CHEMIST
Azerbaijani: kimyaçıCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#CHEMIST
Basque: kimikariCategory:Terms with Basque translations#CHEMIST
Belarusian: хі́мік m (xímik)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#CHEMIST
Bulgarian: хими́к m (himík)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#CHEMIST, хими́чка f (himíčka)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#CHEMIST
Catalan: químic (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#CHEMIST, química (ca) fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#CHEMIST
Chinese:
Mandarin: 化學家 / 化学家 (zh) (huàxuéjiā)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CHEMIST Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CHEMIST
Czech: chemik (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#CHEMIST
Danish: kemiker (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#CHEMIST
Dutch: scheikundige (nl) m or fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#CHEMIST, chemicus (nl) mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#CHEMIST
Esperanto: kemiistoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#CHEMIST, ĥemiistoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#CHEMIST
Estonian: keemikCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#CHEMIST
Faroese: evnafrøðingur mCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#CHEMIST
Finnish: kemisti (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CHEMIST
French: chimiste (fr) m or fCategory:Terms with French translations#CHEMIST
Galician: químico (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#CHEMIST, química (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#CHEMIST
Georgian: ქიმიკოსი (kimiḳosi)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CHEMIST
German: Chemiker (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#CHEMIST, Chemikerin (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#CHEMIST
Greek: χημικός (el) m or f (chimikós)Category:Terms with Greek translations#CHEMIST
Hindi: कीमियागर (hi) m (kīmiyāgar)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#CHEMIST
Hungarian: vegyész (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#CHEMIST, kémikus (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#CHEMIST
Icelandic: efnafræðingur mCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#CHEMIST
Indonesian: kimiawanCategory:Terms with Indonesian translations#CHEMIST
Irish: ceimiceoir mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#CHEMIST
Italian: chimico (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#CHEMIST, chimica (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#CHEMIST
Japanese: 化学者 (ja) (かがくしゃ, kagakusha)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#CHEMIST
Kazakh: химик (ximik)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#CHEMIST, химияшы (ximiäşy)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#CHEMIST
Khmer: គីមីវិទូ (kiimii vituu)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#CHEMIST
Korean: 화학자 (ko) (hwahakja)Category:Terms with Korean translations#CHEMIST
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kîmyanas (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#CHEMIST
Kyrgyz: химик (ky) (himik)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#CHEMIST
Lao: ນັກເຄມີ (nak khē mī)Category:Terms with Lao translations#CHEMIST
Latvian: ķīmiķis mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#CHEMIST, ķīmiķe fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#CHEMIST
Lithuanian: chemikas mCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#CHEMIST
Macedonian: хемичар m (hemičar)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#CHEMIST
Maltese: kimikuCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#CHEMIST
Māori: kaimātai matūCategory:Terms with Māori translations#CHEMIST
Mongolian: химич (mn) (ximič)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#CHEMIST
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kjemiker (no) mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#CHEMIST

Nynorsk: kjemikar mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#CHEMIST
Persian: شیمی‌دان (šimi-dân)Category:Terms with Persian translations#CHEMIST
Polish: chemik (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#CHEMIST, chemiczka (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#CHEMIST
Portuguese: químico (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#CHEMIST, química (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#CHEMIST
Romanian: chimist (ro) mCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#CHEMIST, chimistă (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#CHEMIST
Russian: хи́мик (ru) m (xímik)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CHEMIST (for both male and female)
Scottish Gaelic: dùileòlaiche mCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#CHEMIST
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: kemičar (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CHEMIST, kemičarka (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CHEMIST
Slovak: chemik (sk) mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#CHEMIST, chemička (sk) fCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#CHEMIST
Slovene: kemik (sl) mCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#CHEMIST, kémičarka fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#CHEMIST
Spanish: químico (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CHEMIST, química (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CHEMIST
Swahili: mwanakemiaCategory:Terms with Swahili translations#CHEMIST, mkemia (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#CHEMIST
Swedish: kemist (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#CHEMIST
Tajik: химик (tg) (ximik)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#CHEMIST, химикдон (ximikdon)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#CHEMIST
Telugu: రసాయనశాస్త్రజ్ఞుడు (rasāyanaśāstrajñuḍu)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#CHEMIST
Thai: นักเคมี (nák-kee-mii)Category:Terms with Thai translations#CHEMIST
Turkish: kimyacı (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#CHEMIST
Ottoman Turkish: كیمیاجی (kimiyacı)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#CHEMIST
Turkmen: himikCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#CHEMIST
Ukrainian: хі́мік m (xímik)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#CHEMIST
Uzbek: kimyogar (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#CHEMIST
Vietnamese: nhà hoá họcCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CHEMIST
Welsh: cemegwr (cy) mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#CHEMIST, cemegwraig (cy) fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#CHEMIST, cemegydd (cy) m or fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#CHEMIST
Yiddish: כעמיקער m (khemiker)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#CHEMIST, כעמיקערין f (khemikerin)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#CHEMIST

Anagrams

chimest, mitches

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