Etymology

-esque

Today it means: In the style or manner of; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives. Full definition →

French -esque ← Italian -esco ← Latin -iscus
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  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*-iskos
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*-iskaz“-ish”
  3. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*-isk
  4. Lombardic · derived from-isc“-ish”
  5. Latin · derived from-iscus
  6. Italian · derived from-esco
  7. French · borrowed from-esque“-ish, -ic, -esque”
  8. English today-esque

Borrowed from French -esque (“-ish, -ic, -esque”), from Italian -esco, from Latin -iscus, of Germanic origin, from Lombardic -isc (“-ish”), from Proto-West Germanic *-isk, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos. Cognate with Old High German -isc (German -isch), Old English -isċ, Old Norse -iskr, Gothic -𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (-isks). Doublet of -ish and -ski.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.