Etymograph

English

face control

Face control comes from Russian фейсконтро́ль, and goes back to English face.

  1. English1500–presentface
  2. Russianmodernфейсконтро́льfejskontrólʹ
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2009face control

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentface
  2. Russianmodernфейсконтро́льfejskontrólʹ
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2009face control

Earliest quotation: 2009, Joshua Yaffa, Barbarians at the Gate: “Slava Kaz, however, was not impressed. They were young.…”

Made of the words face + control

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

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Latin faciēs ‘form’

Late Latin facia

Old French face

Middle English face

English face

Medieval Latin contrarotulare

Middle French contreroller ‘check against a duplicate account’

Middle English controllen ‘to restrain or keep in check’

English control

Every English word from English face

Today it means

noun The policy, in upscale nightclubs, of restricting entry based on a bouncer's snap judgment of the suitability of a person's looks, money, style or attitude.

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