Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scotist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sco-tist
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A follower of John Duns Scotus, Franciscan scholar, who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology in opposition to the Thomists.

Example Sentences

"[…] it should be remembered that their poets and rabbis of the middle ages were contemporary with the Scotists and Thomists, with the pseudo-platonism and peripateticism of Christendom."

Etymology

From Scotus + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Scotus

Inflected Forms

Scotists (plural)

Questions

What does scotist mean?: A follower of John Duns Scotus, Franciscan scholar, who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology in opposition to the Thomists.
Where does scotist come from?: From Scotus + -ist.

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