façon

Inherited from Middle French façon, from Old French façon, from Latin factiōnem. Compare faction, a borrowed doublet.

• IPA^(key): /fa.sɔ̃/

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façon f (plural façons)

1. way; manner; fashion

   Synonym: manière

   Je n’aime pas la façon dont tu me parles.

   I don't like the way you speak to me.

• Haitian Creole: fason
• → Alemannic German: Fasung
• → Danish: facon
• → Russian: фасон (fason)
  • → Uzbek: fason
• → Swedish: fason

• “façon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• fonça

From Old French façon.

façon f (plural façons)

1. way; manner; fashion

• French: façon
  • Haitian Creole: fason
  • → Alemannic German: Fasung
  • → Danish: facon
  • → Russian: фасон (fason)
    • → Uzbek: fason
  • → Swedish: fason

• facon (manuscript form)
• faceon
• façun (Anglo-Norman)
• fechoun (Old Northern French)

From Latin factiōnem, accusative singular of factiō.

• IPA^(key): /faˈt͡sun/

façon oblique singular, f (oblique plural façons, nominative singular façon, nominative plural façons)

1. way, manner, fashion

• Middle French: façon
  • French: façon
    • Haitian Creole: fason
    • → Alemannic German: Fasung
    • → Danish: facon
    • → Russian: фасон (fason)
      • → Uzbek: fason
    • → Swedish: fason
  • French: façon
• Norman: faichon
• → Middle Dutch: fatchoen, faetsoen
  • Dutch: fatsoen
    • Afrikaans: fatsoen
    • → Indonesian: fatsun
    • Negerhollands: fatsoen
    • Petjo: fatsoen
• → Middle English: facioun
  • English: fashion (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: fashion, fasson
  • Yola: fashoon