fashion (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Shape, formII. Prevailing custom1. mos, mōris, m.2. consuētūdo (denoting a less permanent usage)3. rītus, ūs, m. (referring strictly to religious customs)4. sēcŭlum ("the age"; with its fashions) • fashion (subs.): I. Shape, form: q. v. II. Prevailing custom: 1. mos, mōris, m.: he said it was not the f. of the Greeks, negavit moris esse Graecorum, Cic.: the old f. keeps its ground, mos antiquus manet, Cic.: to drink after the Greek f., Graeco more bibere, Cic.: to bring a thing into f., in (nostros) mores, in morem, inducere, perducere, Cic.: to come into f., in morem venire, Liv.: Ov.: after the f., ex more, de more, more, more hominum, Pl.: Ter.: Virg.: to seek honour for infamy is now the f., petere honorem pro flagitio, more fit, Pl. 2. consuētūdo (denoting a less permanent usage): v. custom. 3. rītus, ūs, m. (referring strictly to religious customs): esp. in phr. after the f. (= manner) of, ritu: after the f. of brutes, quadrupedum ritu, Lucr.; pecudum r., Cic.: after the f. of young men, juvenum r., Hor. 4. sēcŭlum ("the age"; with its fashions): no one there laughs at vices, nor are seducing and being seduced called the f., nemo illic vitia ridet, nec corrumpere et corrumpi sec. vocatur, Tac. Ger. 19: not yet had that disregard of the gods which is now the f., come in, nondum haec, quae nunc tenet s., negligentia deum venerat, Liv. 3, 20, med. Phr.: it is my f. to talk nonsense, soleo nugas garrire, Pl.: you should not use these words if you can help it; by that means they will go out of f., his verbis oportet, si possis, non uti; sic enim obsolescent, Varr. 9 (8), 10: he was dressed quite out of the f., obsoletius vestitus fuit, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 58, 152: many words have gone out of f., multa ceciderunt verba, Hor. A. P. 70: skin clothing fell into contempt, went out of f., pellis cecidit vestis contempta ferina, Lucr. 5, 1417: a person of f., vir elegans, Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23.
fashion (v.) Copy link Outline 1. fabrēfăcio, fēci, factum, 3 (to employ workmanship upon2. fabrĭco, fabrĭcor, 1 (to frame, shape)3. effingo, nxi, ctum, 3 (to form a figure, an image) • fashion (v.): 1. fabrēfăcio, fēci, factum, 3 (to employ workmanship upon: chiefly in p. part.): silver and brass (skilfully) f.'d, argentum aesque fabrefactum, Liv.: a bowl f.'d of different metallic materials, lanx ex diversis metallicis materiis fabrefacta, Ammian. Fig.: this trick has been f.'d by us, haec est fabrefacta a nobis fallacia, Pl. 2. fabrĭco, fabrĭcor, 1 (to frame, shape): the power which f.'d man, vis quae fabricata est hominem, Cic.: philosophy forms and f.s the mind, philosophia animum format et fabricat, Sen. Ep. 16, 3. 3. effingo, nxi, ctum, 3 (to form a figure, an image): to f. the beauty of the Coan Venus, Veneris Coae pulchritudinem eff., Cic.: to f. the images of the gods after the appearances of men, deum imagines in species hominum eff., Tac. H. 5, 5. Phr.: you will be able to f. anything you like out of the wet clay, argilla quidvis imitaberis uda, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 8: v. to mould, form.
FASHION Copy link • FASHION 1. 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. 2. v. Vid: To FORM, v.