"design (look and shape of a thing)" in seven languages
Meaningdesign (look and shape of a thing)
Spanish
/diˈseɲo/
masc.borrowed · Italian disegno
French
/dizajn/
masc.borrowed · English design
Dessin is 'drawing'; conception is the act of designing.
Italian
/diˈzajn/
masc.borrowed · English design
The native disegno now means 'drawing'.
Portuguese
/dʒiˈzajn/
masc.borrowed · English design
Romanian
/diˈzajn/
neut.borrowed · English design
Catalan
/diˈsɛɲ/
masc.borrowed · Italian disegno
English
/dɪˈzaɪn/
from Latin/French · Middle French desseing and Italian disegno, from Latin dēsignāre
The Latin ancestor
DĒSIGNĀRE‘to mark out (from SIGNUM 'mark')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Renaissance studio word: Italian disegno 'drawing, plan' gave Spanish diseño and, with French, English design. In the 20th century French and Italian borrowed the English word back for product design.
English relatives: designate, sign, signal, signature
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In a sentence
- esMe encanta el diseño de esta silla.
- frJ'adore le design de cette chaise.
- itAdoro il design di questa sedia.
- ptAdoro o design desta cadeira.
- roÎmi place mult designul acestui scaun.
- caM'encanta el disseny d'aquesta cadira.
- enI love the design of this chair.
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