върховист

Bulgarian

Etymology

Morphologically formed from върхо́вен (vǎrhóven, “supreme”), въ́рхов (vǎ́rhov, “top, peak”) +‎ -ист (-ist, “agentive suffix”), semantically a calque of French absolutiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vɐrxoˈvist]

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Noun

върхови́ст • (vǎrhovíst) m

1. (historical) supporter of a supreme, absolute idea or goal

Usage notes

The term is predominantly used in historical context to describe members of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (in Bulgarian: Върховен македоно-одрински комитет), who desired the complete unification of all Balkan Slavs formerly under Ottoman control. A lesser alternative of this goal was the formation of independent regional states (Macedonia, Shopluk, Thrace, Moesia, Dobrudja, etc.) for each ethnoregional group.

Declension

Declension of висши́ст

	singular	plural
indefinite	висши́ст visšíst	висши́сти visšísti
definite (subject form)	висши́стът visšístǎt	висши́стите visšístite
definite (object form)	висши́ста visšísta
count form	—	висши́ста visšísta

Related terms

• върхови́зъм (vǎrhovízǎm, “supremism, absolutism”)

References

• “върховист”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “върховист”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010