-esque

See also: es que and esque

English

Etymology

From French -esque (“-ish, -ic, -esque”), from Italian -esco, from Latin -iscus, of Germanic origin, from Lombardic -isc (“-ish”), from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos. Cognate with Old High German -isc (German -isch), Old English -isc, Old Norse -iskr, Gothic -𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (-isks). More at -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-ɛsk/

Suffix

-esque

1. In the style or manner of; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives.

   Kafkaesque

   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.

2. Resembling; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -esque

Translations

Note: these translations are a guide only. For more precise translations, see individual words ending in -esque.

in the style of

• Catalan: -esc (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: -式的 (zh) (... shì de)

• Danish: -isk
• Dutch: -esk (nl)
• Esperanto: -eca
• Finnish: -mainen (fi)
• French: -esque (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: -esk (de)
• Hungarian: -i (hu)
• Italian: -esco
• Romanian: -esc (ro) m
• Russian: -е́скный (-ésknyj)
• Spanish: -esco (es)
• Swedish: -isk (sv) c, -iskt n, -aktig (sv)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} แนว (th) (nɛɛo)

resembling

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: -似的 (zh) (... shì de)

• Danish: -agtig, -lignende
• Dutch: -esk (nl)
• Esperanto: -eca
• Finnish: -mainen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: -esque (fr)
• Hungarian: -szerű (hu)
• Russian: -подо́бный (-podóbnyj)
• Spanish: -esco (es)
• Swedish: -lik (sv) c, -likt n, -aktig (sv)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} แนว (th) (nɛɛo), ^{(please verify)} แบบ (th) (bɛ̀ɛp), ^{(please verify)} อย่าง (th) (yàang)

Anagrams

• eques, squee

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French

Etymology

From Italian -esco (“-like”), from Latin -iscus (also the partial source of the inherited doublets -ais and -ois through Old French), of Germanic origin, from Lombardic -isc, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos. Akin to Old High German -isc (German -isch), Old English -isc, Old Norse -iskr, Gothic -𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (-isks). More at -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛsk/

Suffix

-esque

1. -esque

Descendants

• English: -esque