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"fashion" in seven languages

Meaningfashion

Spanish

moda

/ˈmoda/

fem.borrowed · French mode

French

mode

/mɔd/

fem.learned

La mode is fashion; le mode is a mode or method.

Italian

moda

/ˈmɔda/

fem.borrowed · French mode

Portuguese

moda

/ˈmɔdɐ/

fem.borrowed · French mode

Romanian

modă

/ˈmodə/

fem.borrowed · French mode

Catalan

moda

/ˈmɔdə/

fem.borrowed · French mode

English

fashion

/ˈfæʃən/

other source · Old French façon (Latin FACTIŌNEM)

English → ItalianfashionmodaNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: mode, model, modern, modest.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

MODUM‘measure, manner’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

French turned Latin 'manner' into 'the manner of the day' and exported it with its fashions. Pasado de moda, démodé, fuori moda: out of fashion.

English relatives: mode, model, modern, modest

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In a sentence

  • esHa vuelto a estar de moda.
  • frC'est revenu à la mode.
  • itÈ tornato di moda.
  • ptVoltou à moda.
  • roA revenit la modă.
  • caTorna a estar de moda.
  • enIt's back in fashion.

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