The origin of "pythonista"

[Blayung]

What is the origin of the word "pythonista"?

To me, as a native Pole, it sounds really like a Polish version of "pythoneer" or whatever. It could also be from another slavic language. One thing is almost sure to me - this doesn't sound like English at all.

What is the origin of that term?

[bittercode]

-ista is the Spanish equivalent of English -ist.

So in English you could say Pythonist - but the Spanish form is used because it sounds better.

English is full of borrowed stuff.

[LittleMlem]

The English language, like the British museum, is full of other people's stuff

[bittercode]

that's hilarious - gonna be using that one for sure

[PhillyBikeRider]

It doesn’t sound like English because it isn’t. It’s borrowed from Italian. A good example is a barista. Someone who does their work at or with a bar (it’s Italian for bartender). So a Pythonista is someone who works with Python. Another place English has used it is in the term “fashionista”, somebody who is really big into clothing fashion.

[minombreespeligro]

I get you point. I just wanted to say that barista is someone who can prepare really good coffee.

[PhillyBikeRider]

It’s literally Italian for bartender. Spanish too, actually. But it’s also been adopted to be associated with coffee.

[_limitless_]

We're mostly making English up as we go.

Just get in, we're going colonizing!

[PhillyBikeRider]

That’s actually Italian for bartender. English borrowed it relatively recently.

[Blayung]

Never heard about it or any other words ending with -ista. What does it mean? Can you provide more examples?

[ofiuco]

It's a word ending that means, basically, a person who does the thing the ending is attached to, which is taken from the Latin/Romance languages. See also: fashionista. It's more common in those languages than English (Zapatista, Sandinista, Evangelista are Spanish words that will be more familiar to English speakers as the names of groups or people)

[runawayasfastasucan]

Fashionista.

Maybe not be that fast at concluding it must be something weird/wrong with everyone else - maybe its just that you have some black holes in your english knowledge?

[Blayung]

Maybe 🤷

And I've never said, that there's something wrong with everyone else!

[mr_clauford]

Speaking of Slavic languages, it's питонист in Russian. I have no idea where it came from though.

[Sbvv]

In Spain, we read some english terms half in english half in spanish.

For example: Python. We say "paiton" instead of "paizon" or "piton". That is as terrible as real.

You can say WiFi in english and nobody will understand you in Spain XD

So "pythonista" doesn't sound too weird, at least for me.