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atelier

/əˈtɛl.jeɪ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A studio or workshop, especially for an artist, designer, or fashion house.

Etymology / origin

Unadapted borrowing from French atelier, from Middle French astelier, from astelle (“small piece of wood, etc., to hold a broken bone in place, splint”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis; axle”) via Latin assula) + -ier (suffix denoting the location of an abode). Compare typologically Latin harēna, whence arena.

  1. assula(Latin)→
  2. *h₂eḱs-(ine-pro)→
  3. astelier(frm)→
  4. *h₂eḱs-(ine-pro)→
  5. atelier (English)
  6. Relations: root, der, der, der

Related words

*h₂eḱs-(ine-pro)astelier(frm)assula(Latin)

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