Bespoke
/bɪˈspoʊk/noun
Made to order for a particular customer or purpose.
Did you know?Bespoke comes from the old verb bespeak, literally “to speak for” or “arrange by speaking,” and it survived in English as a word for custom-made things.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*spēk-
“to speak, say”
Old English
OE
specan
“to speak”
Old English
OE
besprecan
“to speak for, discuss, arrange”
Middle English
ME
bespeken
“to arrange, order, engage”
Modern English
English
bespoke
“custom-made; originally the past tense of bespeak”
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