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