Where does “couture” come from?
Couture comes from French haute couture, in which couture derives from Old French cousture, from Latin consuo meaning to sew together, formed from the prefix con- and suere meaning to sew.
couture (English): The production of high-end, custom-made clothing
Definitions
- The production of high-end, custom-made clothing
Ancestry of “couture”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | haute couture | High fashion as produced in Paris and imitated in... |
| 2 | French | haute couture | haute couture, high fashion |
| 3 | French | couture | sewing; dressmaking; seam |
| 4 | Old French | cousture | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | consutura | sewing, clothesmaking, the art of sewing |
| 6 | Latin | cōnsūtus | sewn or stitched together |
| 7 | Latin | cōnsuō | to sew together, sew up, stitch, join |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |