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bassoonist en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English bassoon Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English bassoonist From bassoon + -ist (“a person who uses something”).

Meanings

1. A person who plays the bassoon, a musical instrument in the woodwind family.
   • Actually there was recently a talented young female bassoonist who gave up a promising career on that sturdy instrument, not to do something more feminine but to take up bullfighting. This is Patricia Hayes of San Angelo, Texas, who has had spectacular success in the arenas of Mexico and Portugal. Unfortunately she is not America's only matadoress. 1956 December 24, Cornelia Otis Skinner, “Women are misguided: They are still waging a shrill, ridiculous war over the dead issue of feminism”, in Life, volume 41, number 26, page 75:
   • Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass. 2015 August 1, Vanessa Thorpe, “Musicians launch campaign to save the bassoon as shortage threatens orchestra”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Synonyms

bassooner

Translations (33)

ru фаготи́ст (person who plays the bassoon) · de Fagottspielerin (person who plays the bassoon) · eo fagotistino (person who plays the bassoon) · is fagottleikari (person who plays the bassoon) · pt fagotista (person who plays the bassoon) · es bajonista (person who plays the bassoon) · vo jibasunan (person who plays the bassoon) · es fagot (person who plays the bassoon) · it fagottista (person who plays the bassoon) · ca baixó (person who plays the bassoon) · pl fagocista (person who plays the bassoon) · de Fagottist (person who plays the bassoon) · fi fagotisti (person who plays the bassoon) · ro fagotist (person who plays the bassoon) · es piporro (person who plays the bassoon) · et fagotimängija (person who plays the bassoon) · vo basunan (person who plays the bassoon) · da fagottist (person who plays the bassoon) · es fagotista (person who plays the bassoon) · pl fagocistka (person who plays the bassoon) · hy ֆագոտահար (person who plays the bassoon) · eo fagotisto (person who plays the bassoon) · el φαγκοτίστας (person who plays the bassoon) · ro fagotistă (person who plays the bassoon) · fr basson (person who plays the bassoon) · vo hibasunan (person who plays the bassoon) · cs fagotista (person who plays the bassoon) · de Fagottistin (person who plays the bassoon) · ru фаготи́стка (person who plays the bassoon) · fr bassoniste (person who plays the bassoon) · de Fagottspieler (person who plays the bassoon) · es bajón (person who plays the bassoon) · sv fagottist (person who plays the bassoon)