humorist

== English == === Alternative forms === humourist === Etymology === From humor +‎ -ist. === Noun === humorist (plural humorists) (medicine, now rare, historical) Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist. [from 16th c.] (obsolete) Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric. [16th–19th c.] 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 175: I called on him and found him a contemporary of Beauclerk and Langton at Trinity College, Oxford, and a man of reading and animation, but a kind of humourist. A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance. [from 17th c.] One who studies or portrays the humours of people. ==== Coordinate terms ==== comedian / comedienne comic clown jester ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Romanian == === Noun === humorist m (plural humoriști, feminine equivalent humoristă) alternative spelling of umorist