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Where does “fashionable” come from?

Fashionable comes from Middle English -able, Old French -able, and Latin -abilis, derived from Latin facio meaning "to make or do."

fashionable (English): Characteristic of or influenced by a current...

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of or influenced by a current...

Ancestry of “fashionable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfashionA current trend, favored for frivolous rather...
2Middle EnglishfaciounThe way something looks or appears; physical...
3Anglo-Normanfechoun—
4Old Frenchfaçonway; manner; fashion
5Latinfactiō—
6Latinfactusdone, made, having been done or made; became
7Latinfaciō—
8Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
9Latin-tōrius—
10Latin-tor-er
11Proto-Italic-tōr—
12Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
13Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “fashionable”

  • unfashionable
  • fashionably
  • unfashionably
  • fashionability
  • fashionableness
  • ultrafashionable
  • unfashionableness
  • superfashionable
  • nonfashionable
  • antifashionable
  • infashionable
  • prefashionable
  • fesch
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