Etymology

humanist

H4U1M3A1N1I1S1T1

Today it means: A scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities. Full definition →

Middle French humaniste
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle French · derived fromhumaniste
  2. English todayhumanist

From Middle French humaniste.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.