designer
/dɪˈzaɪnə/dih-ZIGH-nur
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked/dɪˈzaɪnɚ/dih-ZIGH-nur
Meaningone who designs
Common meaning: a person who designs things
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- dedown, away, off; undoing
- signa mark or signalLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1696 · scan
- eragent ending: one who
‘down, away, off’ + ‘a mark or signal’ → designer
Journey through time
- Latinsignum, -ī‘a mark or signal’
- Frenchdesigner
- Englishdesign‘a plan or drawing showing how something will look’
- Englishformed in English from designdesigner‘a person who designs things’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
- No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
- No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.
Origin: Formed in English from design + -er.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), DESIGN, p.162 · scan
Roots
- signum, -ī Latin “a mark or signal”
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