modèle

Inherited from Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.dɛl/

• Audio; “un modèle”:

  (file)

• Homophone: modèles

modèle m (plural modèles)

1. model, example, design
2. (Wikimedia jargon) template

• → Azerbaijani: model
• → Bulgarian: моде́л (modél)
• → Chinese: 模特兒 / 模特儿, 模特 (mótè) (transliteration)
• → Crimean Tatar: model
• → English: model, modell (see there for further descendants)
• → Persian: مدل
• → Russian: модель (modelʹ)
• → Serbo-Croatian: модел, mòdel
• → Turkish: model
• → Ukrainian: модель (modelʹ)
• → Vietnamese: mô-đen

• mannequin (“fashion model”)

modèle

1. inflection of modeler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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