lutenist
noun
lutenist is a noun meaning “One who plays the lute, a lutist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-T-E-N-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lutenist is lutenists.
What does lutenist mean?
noun
- 1
One who plays the lute, a lutist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lutenist?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-lutenist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lutenist
- lutenists plural
- lutanist
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lutenist?
Lutenist appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lutenist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who plays the lute:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | alaudista |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lutenist come from?
Borrowed from Medieval Latin lutanista, from lutana (“lute”), from Middle French lut. By surface analysis, lute + -n- + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).