Etymology

tailor

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Today it means: A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. Full definition →

Middle English taillour ← Anglo-Norman taillour ← Old French tailleor
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tailor · noun, verb1

  1. Latintālea
  2. Late Latintāliō
  3. Old Frenchtaillier
  4. Old Frenchtailleor
  5. Anglo-Normantaillour
  6. Middle Englishtaillour
  7. English todaytailor

Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur. Compare typologically German Schneider (akin to English snithe); Macedonian кројач (krojač), Polish krawiec (akin to Proto-Slavic *krojiti).

Tailor · proper noun2

From tailor. Doublet of Taylor.

Words from the same roots

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