Etymology

passéist

Today it means: A person having an excessive regard for the past. Full definition →

French passéiste ← Vulgar Latin *passātus
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  1. Vulgar Latin*passātus
  2. Frenchpassé
  3. Frenchpasséiste
  4. English todaypasséist

Borrowed from French passéiste. By surface analysis, passé + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.