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atelier

ate·lier

UK/əˈtɛl.jeɪ/ US/əˈtɛl.i.eɪ/ rare

noun

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from French atelier, from Middle French astelier, from astelle (“small piece of wood, etc., to hold a broken bone in place, splint”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis; axle”) via Latin assula) + -ier (suffix denoting the location of an abode). Compare typologically Latin harēna, whence arena.

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