Question

What does the suffix -ist mean in optimist?

A.one who does or believes something
B.one who shows a trait or ability
C.one who fights conviction or principle
D.one who has imagination or inner vision

Answer 1

Answer:I think it is B

Explanation:

Answer 2

The correct answer is OPTION A: one who does or believes something.

• In linguistics, a suffix is a word affix that appears after the stem.
• Common examples include case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which determine the conjugation of verbs.
• Suffixes can carry grammatical or lexical information (derivational suffixes).
• Desinences and grammatical suffixes are both terms for inflectional suffixes.
• As a result of inflexion, a word's grammatical properties within its syntactic category change.
• Class-changing and class-maintaining suffixes are two forms of derivational suffixes.
• -ist is a class maintaining suffix.