Etymology

fashion

fash·ion
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Today it means: A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons. Full definition →

Middle English facioun ← Old French façon ← Latin factiōnem
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁k-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁kyéti
  4. Proto-Italic*θakjō
  5. Proto-Italic*fakjō
  6. Latinfaciō
  7. Latinfactiōnem
  8. Old Frenchfaçon
  9. Middle Englishfacioun
  10. English todayfashion

Inherited from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.