Etymology

colloquist

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Today it means: One who takes part in a colloquy Full definition →

English colloquy ← Middle English colloquies ← Latin colloquium
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*telkʷ-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*tlokʷetor
  8. Proto-Italic*tlokʷōr
  9. Latinloquor
  10. Latincolloquor
  11. Latincolloquium
  12. Middle Englishcolloquies
  13. Englishcolloquy
  14. English todaycolloquist

From colloquy + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.