Etymology

designer

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Today it means: A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession. Full definition →

English design ← Middle English designen ← Old French designer
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
  7. Proto-Italic*segnom
  8. Proto-Italic*segnāō
  9. Latinsignō
  10. Latindesignō
  11. Old Frenchdesigner
  12. Middle Englishdesignen
  13. Englishdesign
  14. English todaydesigner

From design + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.