"Fashion" and "fashion" - the history of the origin of words

The word was born. And the word had a purpose - to describe the events and phenomena taking place. The word that came into being was called "fashion". The word was born a long time ago, but fame came to it much later.

Words, like people, have to work for a very long time in order to achieve success, occupying quite ordinary positions. Words, like people, can sometimes be an ordinary word all your life.

But "fashion" was lucky. The word became bright, noticeable, characterizing a number of events and phenomena. Fashion is in clothes, in hair, and in interior design, and even in food preparation.

The beginning of its life is the word "fashion" in Latin, which was spoken by the ancient Romans. The word was written like this - "modus", and it meant - "measure (of an object); rule, prescription; image, way ".

Having matured, the word moved to live in France. "La mode" - they began to call him. Although, how can you name a word?

In France, the glory of the word "fashion" begins. The word becomes famous and elegant. And this was due to the fact that from the XIV century in France, thanks to the Burgundian court, and the emergence of the cut, of course, the concept of fashion in clothes appears. And France itself for many years and even whole centuries has become a country-center for the development of world fashion.

We say Paris, we think about fashion, we say fashion, we think about Paris.

In Russian, the word "fashion" appears at the end of the 17th century, during the reign and reforms of Peter I. The word comes to Russia from Europe. Either from Germany - Mode, or from France - la mode.

The Dutch origins of the word "fashion" can also be assumed. Indeed, for Peter I, it was Holland that served as a model in many ways. But, on the other hand, it is not so important - both in Holland and in Germany, fashion was called "mode".

The word comes after their wards. Each word has its own wards - these are the events and phenomena that it calls. Under Peter I Russian boyars were forced to follow European fashion in clothes, change into European outfits. A phenomenon appeared, in the case of the Russian boyars the need to follow the European fashion, the word also appeared.

Fashion is “a walking custom; a temporary, changeable whim in everyday life, in society, in the cut of clothing and in outfits. " This is how the meaning of the word "fashion" in Russian is interpreted according to Dahl's dictionary.

But, without delving into the jungle of the Russian language, let's return to the word and its travels. The word "fashion", having moved from Latin to French, and then to Russian, appeared in other European countries as well.

Perhaps, in some of these languages, the word "fashion" came directly from Latin, for example, in Italian. In other languages, the word "fashion", as well as in Russian, got through the territory of France.

This is how the word "fashion" could appear on the territory of the Commonwealth, the local gentry was not averse to dressing like French, German, Hungarian, everything depended on where the king and his wife were from. This is how the word "fashion" came into the Belarusian, Polish and Lithuanian languages.

And only to one European country the word "fashion" could not get - to England. Perhaps the word simply did not like water. After all, it's not so easy to get to the island, on which Old England, separated by the strait from the rest of Europe, is located.

In England, the vacant position, which is occupied by the word "fashion" practically throughout the rest of Europe, was taken by the word "fashion". Well, well, a holy place is never empty.

The word "fashion" appeared in England somewhere at the beginning of the XIV century."Born" - you can try to correct me. But, no, it was not born. The word "fashion" was born, like the word "fashion", in Latin. So they can be considered brothers.

The word "fashion" comes from the Latin word "factionem" and then the ancient French word "facon". It can be concluded that France is a good crossing point for words wishing to move from the forgotten Latin language to living European languages.

In England XIV-XV centuries the word "fashion" was used in the meaning of "form, behavior, way of action, custom." There is another very curious version, why in England instead of "fashion" they began to say "fashion".

It's all about the fitted caftans, which were sewn throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In England, the fashion for this clothes, which was sewn strictly according to the figure by tailors, came from France. “Made to fit,” said the tailors. This is how the word “fashion” appeared in England.

The word, which since the end of the 20th century began to oust its sister from European languages, including Russian, Belarusian and Polish, is “fashion”. Therefore, "fashion" has recently run the risk of being unemployed. After all, his more modern sister in terms of advertising technologies and show business, the word "fashion", got down to business.

The word, which originally, like many modern borrowings from English into Russian, for example, another word Internet fashionable from the end of the twentieth century, was written in the Russian-language text exclusively in English letters.

But time passes, and now we can read "fashion" and "fashion". Similarly, we can read "Internet" and "Internet". True, the last word, having taken a position invented exclusively for him, does not threaten to leave someone unemployed. While "fashion" now and then replaces the good old word "fashion".

But not only geographically traveled the word "fashion" - from country to country, from language to language. It also traveled within the framework of each language. So, in the Russian language the word "fashion" has traveled from one part of speech to another.

The word "fashion" is a noun. It came into the Russian language, for example, in the form of the French word "la mode". "La mode" is a noun, the particle "la" indicates the feminine gender of this word in French. In Russian, the word "fashion" also retains the feminine gender.

From the word "fashion" in Russian, an adjective (fashionable, fashionable, fashionable), an adverb (fashionable), a verb (fashionable) are formed. The same thing happened with the word "fashion" in English. For example, it is known that by the 17th century the adjective “fashionable” appeared in English - “fashionable, elegant, stylish”.

Also, in any of the languages ​​in which the word "fashion" falls and begins to get a permanent residence there, it begins to be friends with other words. This means that a stable expression appears - "squeak of fashion", or satellite words that can replace the word "fashion" when it decides, for example, to go on vacation, that is, the words are synonyms.

But why only be friends? Enemy words may also appear, words of opposite meaning - antonyms.

But what happens to a word when it comes into a particular language, how it develops, changes, and even disappears altogether, this is a completely different story.

And which word is closer to you - the good old "fashion" or the newfangled "fashion"? Think at your leisure.