flautist

English

Alternative forms

• flutist

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian flauto

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 -istabor.

Italian -ista

Italian flautistabor.

English flautist

Borrowed from Italian flautista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (UK) /ˈflɔːtɪst/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈflaʊtɪst/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

flautist (plural flautists)

2. (music) One who plays the flute.

   Synonyms: aulete, flute-player, fluter, flutist

   • 2007 July 28, Rick Jones, “Sharon Bezaly / Uljas Pulkkis: Enchanted Garden”, in Times of London:

     The flautist Bezaly adds to the impressive list of flute concertos dedicated to her with the composer Pulkkis’s contribution to the genre.

Translations

flute player

• Armenian: ֆլեյտահար (hy) (fleytahar)
• Belarusian: флейты́ст m (fljejtýst), флейты́стка f (fljejtýstka)
• Catalan: flautista (ca) m or f
• Czech: flétnista f
• Dutch: fluitist (nl) m, fluitiste (nl) f
• Esperanto: flutludisto, flutludanto, flutisto
• Finnish: huilisti (fi)
• French: flûtiste (fr) m or f, flutiste (fr) m or f (1990 spelling)
• Galician: frautista (gl)
• Georgian: ფლეიტისტი (pleiṭisṭi)
• German: Flötenspieler (de) m, Flötenspielerin (de) f, Flötist (de) m, Flötistin (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰 m (swiglja)
• Greek: φλαουτίστας (el) m (flaoutístas), φλαουτίστα (el) f (flaoutísta), φλαουτίστρια (el) f (flaoutístria)

  Ancient Greek: αὐλητής m (aulētḗs), αὐλητρίς f (aulētrís)

• Hungarian: fuvolaművész (hu), fuvolista (hu)
• Icelandic: flautuleikari m
• Irish: fliúiteadóir m
• Italian: flautista (it) m or f
• Latin: tībīcen m, tībīcina m
• Latvian: flautists m, flautiste f
• Macedonian: флејти́ст m (flejtíst)
• Māori: kaiwhakatangi kōauau, kaiwhakatangi pūtōrino
• Nahuatl: tlapitzani
• Persian: نی‌زن (ney-zan)

  Middle Persian: nʾdslʾd (nāy-srāy)

• Polish: flecista (pl) m, flecistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: flautista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: flautist (ro) m, flautistă (ro) f
• Russian: флейти́ст (ru) m (flejtíst), флейти́стка (ru) f (flejtístka)
• Spanish: flautista (es) m or f
• Swedish: flöjtist (sv) c
• Turkish: flütçü (tr)
• Ukrainian: флейти́ст (uk) m (flejtýst), флейти́стка f (flejtýstka)
• Welsh: ffliwtydd
• Yiddish: פֿלייטיסט m (fleytist)

Romanian

Etymology

From flaut +‎ -ist.

Noun

flautist m (plural flautiști, feminine equivalent flautistă)

1. flutist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	flautist	flautistul	flautiști	flautiștii
genitive-dative	flautist	flautistului	flautiști	flautiștilor
vocative	flautistule		flautiștilor

See also

• fluierar

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• flaùtista (Bosnia, Serbia)

Etymology

From flàuta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flaǔtist/
• Hyphenation: fla‧u‧tist

Noun

flaùtist m anim (Cyrillic spelling флау̀тист)

1. flautist, flutist

Declension

Declension of flautist

	singular	plural
nominative	flautist	flautisti
genitive	flautista	flautista
dative	flautistu	flautistima
accusative	flautista	flautiste
vocative	flautiste	flautisti
locative	flautistu	flautistima
instrumental	flautistom	flautistima

References

• “flautist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026