aerialist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓έρῐος (āérĭos)der.
Latin āerius
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English aerial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
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 aerialist
From aerial + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: aerialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An acrobat performing high off the ground, defying a fall to earth, as on a trapeze or a tightrope.
pos: noun
examples: […] I chanced once, when I called during the day, to meet at the rehearsal M’lle Clarisse, the aerialist […] I looked at her carefully, and I could not divest myself of the impression that she was, in spite of her compact and strongly built little frame, much too delicate and fragile a person to go flying through the air from trapeze to trapeze.
Of the two ways of making love, adultery must seem the safer, as the aerialist engaged in it swings to an eventual stop, or else lands in marriage itself which is strung out protectively under the highwire. Whereas a man failing in marriage has nothing to break the tumble.
The migratory birds
have flown the coop
but they’ll be back
with their built-in compass.
They’ll come back the way
the circus does each year—
with aerialists, our angular
birds that loop the loop.
There was a good-looking Argentinian couple standing in the open flap of their tent. They were aerialists, checking over each other’s harnesses, testing the strength of the metal grommets where the guy wires would be attached to them.
Videos of their feats, showing Spiderman^([sic])-like aerialists clinging to stone facades and balcony edges before plunging streets into darkness with the flick of an elevated switch, have been popular on social media since the start of the trend.
gloss: A specialist in aerials, a freestyle skiing discipline.
pos: noun
examples: Abramenko, a top aerialist in freestyle skiing, a five-time Olympian and the country’s flag-bearer for the opening ceremony, garnered more attention after the event, when a photograph of his hug with a Russian rival was widely circulated.
gloss: One who operates a flying machine; a balloonist or aviator.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1803, A Dictionary of the Wonders of Art, London: T. Hurst, entry “Aeronautics,” p. 32,
The balloon, however, having been torn in the lower part, both the cords and netting of the railing of the car broke, the wind again forced away the gentlemen from the tree they were strongly clasping; but with the assistance of a new, though last exertion, the aerialists had an opportunity of leaving the car and balloon, which fell upwards of 200 yards farther.
The Frenchman, Paulhan, made several spectacular flights, but it is noticeable that while the American aerialists are less spectacular they are doing more to further the art of flying.
gloss: A person whose knowledge of agriculture is purely academic and not derived from experience.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: 1825, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Volume 2, p. 1133,
Book farmers, the aerialists of Marshal, are those who know agriculture only by reading about it.
Synonyms: highwire walker
tightrope walker
aerials skier
Related words: aerialism
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