EuroLex/E/Tattoo

tattoo


 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: 'an indelible design marked on the skin by puncturing it and inserting pigment'

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: tattoo [th ahtu], end20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: restricted use: slang, < tattóvering, tattúering, húðflúr; Romanian: tatuaj, 20c, via French, meaning: the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Russian: tattoo < tatuirovka, mid20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Bulgarian: tattoo < tatuirovka; Albanian: tattoo < tatuazh, mid20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English: Greek: tattoo < tatuaz;

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