English
Timonist
From Timon + -ist, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes).
Formed from Timon + -ist
Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- ‘to perceive’
Ancient Greek τῑ́ω ‘to pay honour to a person’
Ancient Greek τῑμή ‘honor’
Ancient Greek Τῑ́μων
English Timon
The story
Used by Robert Greene in his Greene's Mourning Garment (1590). (William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens is usually estimated c. 1607 and would not have influenced Greene; however, some consider the play could be one of Shakespeare's earliest, and could then have been Greene's source.)
Today it means
noun A sort of bitter misanthrope related to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Timonist