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English word origin

Etymology of fash

From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
noun

A worry; trouble; bother.

verb

To worry; to bother, annoy. · To trouble oneself; to take pains. · To ignore or forget about someone or something.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
verb

To make something fascist.

noun

A fascist, a member of the far-right. · The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Etymology tree Latin fascis Italian fascio Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istalbor. Italian -ista Italian fascistabor. English fascistclip. English fash Clipping of fascist, borrowed from Italian fascista, from fascio + -ista.

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Source etymology 3

Original entry ↗
adj

Fashionable.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Clipping of fashionable.

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