köken: From Old French devise (“division, separation; heraldic band, emblem”), from deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise.
dictum, maxim, saying (short phrase expressing a basic truth)
çekim: çoğul ρητά · tamlayan ρητού
eş: απόφθεγμα, αφορισμός, γνωμικό, λόγιο
köken: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek ῥητόν (rhētón, “biblical quotation”), from Ancient Greek ῥητός (rhētós), with semantic loan from French dicton.
a slogan, a motto · an inscription (of a motto on a building), a (heraldic) device, an emblem, a symbol (on a building, having a similar purpose as a motto)
çekim: çoğul deviser · tamlayan devisens
eş: motto, slagord, slogan, tänkespråk, valspråk
köken: Cognate with German Devise, English device, French devise, used in Swedish since 1705.
eş: credo, kredo, motto, idea przewodnia, myśl przewodnia, reguła życiowa
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Italic *wiðō Latin *vidō Latin dīvidō Latin dīvīsus Latin *dīvīsāre Vulgar Latin *dēvīsāreder. Old French deviser Old French devise French devisebor. Polish dewiza Borrowed…
köken: Internationalism via German. Compare German Motto, English motto, Italian motto. Ultimately from Late Latin muttio (“I mutter/murmur”). First attested in 1791.