Fashioned

How to spell fashioned

9 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce fashioned

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does fashioned mean?

1. verbMade, shaped, or crafted something, often by hand and with care.

Fashioned in a sentence

• He fashioned a small shelter from fallen branches and a tarpaulin.

• The jeweller fashioned the ring from a single piece of recycled gold.

Where does fashioned come from?

Language of origin: French

This is the past tense of the verb 'fashion', which entered English in the 1300s from the Old French 'fac\u00e7on', meaning the shape, manner, or making of a thing. That French noun came in turn from the Latin 'factionem', a form of 'facere', meaning 'to make' or 'to do', the same root that gives us 'factory', 'manufacture', and 'fact'. The earliest English sense was simply 'to make or shape', and only later did 'fashion' acquire its modern association with style and clothing. The verb sense preserved here keeps that older, plainer meaning of forming or crafting something by hand. The spelling trap lies in the unstressed middle: the 'shi' is pronounced like a soft 'sh', so writers can be tempted to drop letters or misjudge the ending before adding -ed.

How the word is built

• fashion (from Latin factio: a making)
• -ed (past tense suffix)