The story
- Latin · derived fromidea“idea”
- Late Latin · derived fromidealis“ideal”
- French · borrowed fromidéaliste
- English todayidealist
From French idéaliste, from Late Latin idealis (“ideal”), from Latin idea (“idea”), equivalent to ideal + -ist.
Words from the same roots
Late Latinidealis all →
idealideality
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.