Etymology

metallist

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Today it means: A person who works with metals. Full definition →

English metal ← Middle English metal ← Old French meta
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The story

  1. Latinmetallum
  2. Old Frenchmeta
  3. Middle Englishmetal
  4. Englishmetal
  5. English todaymetallist

From metal + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.