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Where does “fashion” come from?

Fashion derives from Middle English facioun, from Old French façon, from Latin factio meaning a making or doing, from the verb facio meaning to make or do, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁-.

fashion (English): A current trend, favored for frivolous rather...

Definitions

  1. A current trend, favored for frivolous rather...

Ancestry of “fashion”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishfaciounThe way something looks or appears; physical...
2Anglo-Normanfechoun—
3Old Frenchfaçonway; manner; fashion
4Latinfactiō—
5Latinfactusdone, made, having been done or made; became
6Latinfaciō—
7Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
8Latin-tōrius—
9Latin-tor-er
10Proto-Italic-tōr—
11Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
12Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “fashion”

  • fashionable
  • unfashionable
  • fashionably
  • refashion
  • unfashionably
  • fashioner
  • fashionista
  • fashionability
  • fashionableness
  • fashioneth
  • ultrafashionable
  • antifashion
  • unfashionableness
  • nonfashion
  • fashionless
  • fashionist
  • fashionest
  • fashionwise
  • fashionwear
  • superfashionable
  • fashiony
  • fashionmonger
  • newfashion
  • fashionism
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