adorner

English

Etymology

adorn + -er

Noun

adorner (plural adorners)

  1. One who places adornments; one who adorns.
  2. (graphical user interface) A visual element used to decorate or enhance another element to which it is attached.
    • 2010, Phillip Beadle, Mahesh Krishnan, Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies:
      Click one of the margin adorners. The shape of the margin adorner changes []

Translations

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Circa 1331 adourner, circa 1370 adorner. Borrowed from Latin adōrnāre and from Latin adōrdinō.[1] Replaced Old French, Middle French aorner, a borrowing from the same sources.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.dɔʁ.ne/
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Verb

adorner

  1. (literary or dated) to adorn; to decorate

Conjugation

References

  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “adordinare; adornare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 178

Further reading

Latin

Verb

adōrner

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adōrnō
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