## Etymology
From institution (from Latin institutio, from instituere 'to set up, establish', from in- + statuere 'to set up', from status 'standing') + the agent/adherent suffix -ist.

## AI Etymology
institutionalist comes from institution (from Latin institutio, from instituere 'to set up, establish', from in- + statuere 'to set up', from status 'standing') + the agent/adherent suffix -ist. Morphologically, the ending is part of the etymology: the suffix is attached to the older base named in the history, producing a later English derivative. In present English, the noun sense is "one who favors or studies established institutions, especially in economics", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also appears in related forms such as institution, institute, institutionalism, and institutional, and in derivatives such as institutionalistic. Its semantic neighborhood includes traditionalist, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Latin in-, Latin statuere, and Latin stare.

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