–ista, –ite
-ista – suffisso
-ite – suffisso
Might you actually agree with some of the things he stands for? Are you, in fact, a secret Corbynista?
The “Corbynistas” come from a wide age range, sporting hipster beards and silver whiskers in equal abundance.
Simon Danczuk has warned Corbynites have a hit list of moderate MPs they are looking to purge from the party, starting with him.
In his article setting out why there cannot be a Corbynite Labour party in Scotland, Jonathon Shafi’s central premise is correct.
La recente elezione del candidato della sinistra interna, Jeremy Corbyn, alla presidenza del partito laburista ha portato la stampa a creare – come da copione – il termine Corbynistas per indicare i sostenitori del nuovo leader. Di solito il suffisso usato a questo scopo è –ite, come dimostrano gli appellativi Blairite e Thatcherite (coniati rispettivamente per i supporter di Blair e della Thatcher) ma non Cameronite: i fan di Cameron sono Cameroons… Al momento, i risultati su Google per Corbynistas superano di gran lunga il più tradizionale Corbynites.
–ite ha generalmente una connotazione spregiativa e implica un entusiasmo esagerato per un leader o per un movimento; il suffisso –ista, più recente, si usa ancor più spregiativamente, lasciando intendere un che di fanatico, di zelo cieco basato soltanto sui propri sogni e desideri.
Origini del termine
Il primo ad usare il suffisso –ista fu il giornalista e autore americano Stephen Fried negli anni ’90. Fried afferma di essersi ispirato a Sandinistas, nome dato agli appartenenti al movimento rivoluzionario nicaraguanense (ne parleremo in un altro post). Il suffisso –ite viene dal francese, attraverso il latino che a sua volta l’ha mutuato dal greco
–ista: suffix
–ite: suffix
Might you actually agree with some of the things he stands for? Are you, in fact, a secret Corbynista?
The “Corbynistas” come from a wide age range, sporting hipster beards and silver whiskers in equal abundance.
Simon Danczuk has warned Corbynites have a hit list of moderate MPs they are looking to purge from the party, starting with him.
In his article setting out why there cannot be a Corbynite Labour party in Scotland, Jonathon Shafi’s central premise is correct.
The recent election of Jeremy Corbyn, a previously little-known leftwing backbench MP, to the leadership of the UK Labour Party has led, predictably, to the emergence in the press of the term Corbynistas to refer to the new leader’s supporters. The traditional suffix used to denote an enthusiastic supporter of a political leader is –ite, as in Blairite or Thatcherite (but not Cameronite – they’re generally referred to as Cameroons). Yet at the time of writing, Google hits for Corbynistas outnumber the more conventional Corbynites by almost two to one.
–ite is itself generally used disparagingly, suggesting over-enthusiastic support of a leader or movement. The more recent suffix –ista is even more derogatory towards the people thus labelled, suggesting that they are fanatical, blinkered or otherwise deluded.
Origins
–ista as an English suffix was first used in the 1990s by the American journalist and author Stephen Fried. Fried says he was inspired by Sandinista, the term used to refer to the supporters of the leftwing Nicaraguan political party that was much in the news in the 1970s and 1980s. More on this in a later post. –ite has a much longer pedigree, coming from Latin and ultimately Greek via the French –ite.
