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 | — |
| 7 | Latin | cōnsuō | — |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | — |
| 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 | — |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
Words derived from “couture”