The story
- New Latin · derived fromsexualista“advocate of Linnaeus's ideas of sexual reproduction in plants”
- English todaysexualist
Originally a calque of New Latin sexualista (“advocate of Linnaeus's ideas of sexual reproduction in plants”), from sexualis (“sexual”) + -ista (“-ist”). Now in additional senses directly from sexual + -ist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.