What is the Latin word for fashion?

The usual Latin words for “fashion” are mōs, habeō, ōrnō; also saeculum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“fashion” in Latin

mōsway or manner (of behaving); behavior; conduct; custom; habit; practice; usage; wont; character; disposition; inclinatio habeōto have, hold; to own, have (possessions); to possess, have (qualities)ōrnōto furnish, equip, outfit, prepare; to adorn, ornament, decorate; to honor, commend, praise saeculumrace, breed; generation, lifetime; the amount of time between an occurrence and the death of the final person who was al

The English word fashion itself goes back to Latin faciō, through factiō.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

fashion

mos (as a custom; also in dress, mos vestis): habitus: ornatus (as manner of dress). A new fashion, habitus novus: the fashion of the day, seculum (the spirit of the age; ☞ Liv., 3, 20, quae nunc tenet seculum, what is now the fashion of the day; Tac., Germ., 19, 3, seculum vocatur, is called the fashion of the day): *seculi deliciae (the favorite fancies of the day): to be the fashion, in more esse; mods esse (to be the custom); usu receptum esse (to be generally adopted): it is an old fashion, antiqui moris fuit: this fashion of dress from that time became general, hunc morem vestis exinde gens universa tenet: to order the people to adopt the same fashion (of dress), eodem ornatu etiam populum vestiri jubere: a thing becomes the fashion, alicujus rei mos recipitur; aliquid in mores recipitur (the custom of anything is adopted); aliquid usu recipitur, or in consuetudinem, or morem venit (general term, a thing becomes usual); aliquid pullulat (litterally, puts forth shoots; hence spreads, etc.; e.g., luxuria); aliquid inducitur (is introduced, of customs, etc.): to bring in, introduce a fashion, morem inducere or inferre: to bring anything into fashion, perducere aliquid in morem: to bring in new fashions, novos vestium mores inducere (after Statius, Theb., 12, 591): to bring in foreign fashions, peregrinos mores inferre (after Juv., 6, 288, sq.): to bring back an old fashion, antiquum (vestis) morem referre (after Suet., Caes. 20): to go out of fashion, obsolescere: to dress according to the fashion, aliorum habitum, or ornatum, or amictum imitari: to dress after a foreign fashion, in externum habitum mutare corporis cultum: to be dressed in the height of the fashion, nove vestitum esse (Plaut.): to live as our ancestors did, and not according to the fashion of the day, cultum victumque non ad nova exempla componere, sed ut majorum suadent mores (Sen., Tranq., 9, 1): after my fashion, meo more. sicut meus est mos (Hor.): to be all the fashion [Vid: “to be FASHIONABLE”].

Form or style, Vid.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for fashion?: The usual Latin words for “fashion” are mōs, habeō, ōrnō; also saeculum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.