Morphologically formed from върхо́вен (vǎrhóven, “supreme”), въ́рхов (vǎ́rhov, “top, peak”) + -ист (-ist, “agentive suffix”), semantically a calque of French absolutiste.
върхови́ст • (vǎrhovíst) m
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.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | висши́ст visšíst |
висши́сти visšísti |
| definite (subject form) |
висши́стът visšístǎt |
висши́стите visšístite |
| definite (object form) |
висши́ста visšísta | |
| count form | — | висши́ста visšísta |