maquette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French maquette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæˈkɛt/

Noun

maquette (plural maquettes)

1. A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     His presence would be an affront to my body; so, for it, there would be the rare delight of extinguishing an imperfect and distressed version of itself, a prototype, a maquette.

   • 2009, Joe Fig, Inside the Painter's Studio, page 51:

     And I thought, if I can imagine this place in real life, I can build it in the studio and then paint from the maquette as if it were a real landscape. In terms of process this was a breakthrough for me […]

Translations

A preliminary model or sketch

• German: Makette f, Vorführmodell n, Bozzetto (de) m
• Indonesian: maket (id)

Verb

maquette (third-person singular simple present maquettes, present participle maquetting, simple past and past participle maquetted)

1. (art, transitive, intransitive, rare) To prepare a maquette (of).

French

Etymology

From Italian macchietta (“speck, little spot”), diminutive of macchia (“spot”), ultimately from Latin macula (“spot, stain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.kɛt/

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Noun

maquette f (plural maquettes)

1. model, mock-up

Derived terms

• maquettiste

Descendants

• → Catalan: maqueta
• → English: maquette
• → German: Maquette, Makette
• → Greek: μακέτα (makéta)
• → Portuguese: maquete, maqueta
• → Romanian: machetă
• → Turkish: maket

Further reading

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