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Definition of -esque in English Turkish dictionary
- esque
- Önüne eklendiği kelimeye "benzer", "tarzında" anlamı katan sonek
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Definition of -esque in English English dictionary
- Resembling; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives
- In the style or manner of; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives
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- esque
- 1. In the style or manner of; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives.2. Resembling; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives
- esque
- A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish
- esque
- It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs
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() From French -esque (“-ish, -ic, -esque”), from Italian -esco (“-like”), from Medieval Latin -iscus, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *-isc (“-ish”), from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz. Cognate with Old High German -isc (German -isch), Old English -isc, Old Norse -iskr, Gothic -Resimler
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