diarist C2+ Topic:People & Society US /ˈdaɪərɪst/ UK /ˈdaɪərɪst/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a person who keeps a diary or journal As a diarist, she recorded every detail of the wartime siege. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a person who keeps a diary... journalistchroniclermemoiristjournaler Word family Related forms diaryjournal Etymology AI details From diary + -ist. Diary is from Latin diarium ('daily allowance, journal'), from dies ('day'). diarium Latin dies Latin *dyew- Proto-Indo-European View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # diarist **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈdaɪərɪst/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈdaɪərɪst/ ## Meanings 1. a person who keeps a diary or journal ## Examples - As a diarist, she recorded every detail of the wartime siege. ## Synonyms - journalist - chronicler - memoirist - journaler ## Related Forms - diary - journal ## Roots and Affixes - Root: diarium - Root: dies - Root: *dyew- ## Etymology From diary + -ist. Diary is from Latin diarium ('daily allowance, journal'), from dies ('day'). ## AI Etymology Diarist is from diary + -ist. Diary is from Latin diarium ('daily allowance, journal'), from dies ('day'). The ancestry passes through Latin diarium, Latin dies, and Proto-Indo-European *dyew-. The suffix -ist marks an adherent, practitioner, or associated person, so the English form is shaped by recognizable word formation as well as by its inherited or borrowed base. In present use as a noun, it means "a person who keeps a diary or journal", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include diary and journal. ## Topics - People & Society - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown