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I would assume Pythonista is the feminine version and Pythonist is the masculine version. Although, in practice, I would just say "Python user".
by jimbob45 4y ago
I would assume Pythonista is the feminine version and Pythonist is the masculine version. Although, in practice, I would just say "Python user".
- dochtman 4y agoYou assume wrongly, Pythonista has been in use for both genders for a long time (more than a decade).
- Tao3300 4y agolike Sandinista or Fashionista
- kazinator 4y agoThere isn't a productive -ista suffix in English; it occurs in loanwords, or words created to ironically mimic a foreign language in the Romance family ("fashionista"). The -ista suffix in some European languages which have it is not universally feminine. English Slovak Italian (m) (f) (m) (f) fascist fašista fašistka fascista fasciste racist rasista rasistka razzista razziste See here: https://www.etymonline.com/word/-ist https://www.etymonline.com/word/-ist https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ista https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ista The -ista suffix from Latin, where it is a masculine, appearing in that form in a number of Romance languages, and in French as -iste, is masculine. The English -ist comes from the Latin -ista.