classicist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a scholar who studies the languages, literature, and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome

   The classicist translated the poem from ancient Greek.

2. 2
   noun

   an artist or thinker who follows classical principles of order, restraint, and form

   As a classicist, she preferred balanced compositions to radical experiments.

Formed from classic, ultimately from Latin classicus, meaning of the highest class, plus the suffix -ist, denoting a follower or specialist. The scholarly sense refers to a specialist in Greek and Roman antiquity; the artistic sense refers to a follower of classicism.

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