fictionist

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti

Proto-Italic *θingō

Proto-Italic *fingōder.

Latin fingō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin fictiōder.

Old French ficcionbor.

Middle English ficcioun

English fiction

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 fictionist

From fiction + -ist.

fictionist (plural fictionists)

One who deals in fiction; a writer of fiction, a novelist.
- 1989, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Siding with Rushdie’, London Review of Books, volume 11, number 20:
  Just as the Muslim world was vibrating to the ‘insult’ visited on the Prophet Muhamed (Peace Be Upon Him) by an Anglo-Pakistani fictionist of genius and renown, the British and American mass audience was thrilling to the reborn version of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.

a writer of fiction