layout

See also: Layout, lay-out, and lay out

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *logʰéyeti

Proto-Germanic *lagjaną

Proto-West Germanic *laggjan

Old English leċġan

Middle English leyen

English lay

Proto-Indo-European *úd

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-West Germanic *ūt

Old English ūt

▲

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-Germanic *-ai

Proto-Germanic *ūtai

Proto-West Germanic *ūtē

Old English ūte

Middle English oute

English out

English lay outdeverb.

English layout

Deverbal from lay out.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lā′out, IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.aʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

layout (plural layouts)

1. A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.

   The garden’s layout was designed for easy access to all plants.

2. A plan for such arrangement.

   The architect presented the building’s floor layout.

   The magazine changed its page layout to look more modern.

   He admired the efficient layout of the new website.

3. The act of laying out something.
4. (publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information.

   Synonym: format

   The magazine changed its page layout to look more modern.

5. (engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
6. (electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
7. (Internet) The customizable features of a user's profile (such as profile picture, screen name, and bio) collectively.

   He admired the efficient layout of the new website.

8. (gymnastics) A fully stretched out position of the body, with toes pointed and legs straight.

Derived terms

• keyboard layout
• layouting
• masonry layout
• multilayout
• sublayout
• waterfall layout

Descendants

• → German: Layout
• → Dutch: lay-out
• → Polish: layout
• → Portuguese: layout
• → Russian: лейаут (lejaut)
• → Swedish: layout
• → Danish: layout

Translations

structured arrangement of items — see also design,‎ structure,‎ schematic,‎ configuration,‎ composition,‎ arrangement,‎ distribution

• Amharic: አቀማመጥ (ʾäḳämamäṭ)
• Bulgarian: план (bg) m (plan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 設計 / 设计 (zh) (shèjì), 佈局 / 布局 (zh) (bùjú)

• Czech: rozvržení, struktura (cs), rozmístění n
• Dutch: indeling (nl) f
• Esperanto: aranĝo (eo)
• Finnish: asetelma (fi), sijoitus (fi), sommittelu (fi), pohja (fi)
• French: disposition (fr) f, schéma (fr) m, structure (fr) f
• Galician: disposición (gl) f
• Georgian: განლაგება (ganlageba)
• German: Einteilung (de) f, Struktur (de) f, Anordnung (de) f
• Greek: διάταξη (el) f (diátaxi)
• Hungarian: elrendezés (hu), beosztás (hu), kiosztás (hu), elosztás (hu)
• Japanese: レイアウト (ja) (reiauto), 設計 (ja) (せっけい, sekkei), 構造 (ja) (kouzou)
• Māori: takoto
• Polish: layout (pl) m, rozmieszczenie (pl) n, rozplanowanie n, układ (pl) m, rozkład (pl) m
• Portuguese: disposição (pt) f
• Russian: расположе́ние (ru) n (raspoložénije), раскла́дка (ru) f (raskládka), структу́ра (ru) f (struktúra), схе́ма (ru) f (sxéma)
• Spanish: maquetación f, impaginación f, trazado (es) m, replanteo (es) m
• Swedish: disposition (sv) c, indelning (sv) c, struktur (sv) c, arrangemang (sv) c, layout (sv) c
• Turkish: tanzim (tr)
• Ukrainian: схе́ма f (sxéma), план (uk) m (plan), розташува́ння n (roztašuvánnja)
• Walloon: adjinçna (wa) m, adjinçmint (wa) m

plan for such arrangement — see also plan

• Bulgarian: схема (bg) f (shema)
• Czech: plán (cs), návrh (cs), nákres
• Dutch: indeling (nl) f
• Finnish: asettelu (fi), sijoittelu, sommittelu (fi), pohjapiirustus (fi)
• German: Einteilung (de) f
• Hungarian: terv (hu), vázlat (hu)
• Russian: план (ru) m (plan), планиро́вка (ru) f (planiróvka)
• Spanish: maqueta (es) f
• Turkish: plan (tr)
• Ukrainian: план (uk) m (plan)

act of laying out

• Czech: rozložení (cs), rozprostření, rozmístění n
• Dutch: indelen (nl) n
• Esperanto: aranĝo (eo)
• Finnish: asettelu (fi), sijoittelu, sommittelu (fi), suunnittelu (fi)
• Russian: размеще́ние (ru) n (razmeščénije), раскла́дка (ru) f (raskládka)
• Ukrainian: розташува́ння n (roztašuvánnja)

process of arranging media content for publishing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佈局 / 布局 (zh) (bùjú)

• Dutch: opzet (nl) m, lay-out (nl) m
• Finnish: taitto (fi)
• French: mise en page (fr) f maquette (fr) f
• German: Gestaltung (de) f, Layout (de) n
• Greek: σελιδοποίηση (el) f (selidopoíisi)
• Hungarian: tördelés (hu)
• Indonesian: tata letak (id)
• Japanese: レイアウト (ja) (reiauto)
• Portuguese: layout (pt) m, leiaute (pt) m
• Russian: маке́т (ru) m (makét), разме́тка (ru) f (razmétka)
• Spanish: maquetación f, impaginación f
• Swedish: layout (sv) c
• Tagalog: talatag
• Ukrainian: маке́т m (makét), розмі́тка f (rozmítka)

map or a drawing of a construction site — see also blueprint,‎ plan

• Bulgarian: план (bg) m (plan)
• Czech: plán (cs)
• Dutch: plan (nl) n
• Finnish: asemapiirustus
• French: plan (fr)
• Hungarian: alaprajz (hu)
• Romanian: plan (ro) n
• Russian: план (ru) m (plan), схе́ма (ru) f (sxéma)
• Spanish: plano de replanteo​/​trazado m
• Swedish: planritning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: план (uk) m (plan), схе́ма f (sxéma)

See also

• buildout
• loadout
• setup

Verb

layout (third-person singular simple present layouts, present participle layouting, simple past and past participle layouted)

1. (Philippines) to layout (plan for an arrangement)

Anagrams

• outlay

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *logʰéyeti

Proto-Germanic *lagjaną

Proto-West Germanic *laggjan

Old English leċġan

Middle English leyen

English lay

Proto-Indo-European *úd

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-West Germanic *ūt

Old English ūt

▲

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-Germanic *-ai

Proto-Germanic *ūtai

Proto-West Germanic *ūtē

Old English ūte

Middle English oute

English out

English lay outdeverb.

English layoutubor.

Czech layout

Unadapted borrowing from English layout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaɪjou̯t]
• Hyphenation: lay‧out

Noun

layout m inan

1. (publishing, Internet) layout

Declension

Declension of layout (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	layout	layouty
genitive	layoutu	layoutů
dative	layoutu	layoutům
accusative	layout	layouty
vocative	layoute	layouty
locative	layoutu	layoutech
instrumental	layoutem	layouty

Further reading

• “layout”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “layout”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *logʰéyeti

Proto-Germanic *lagjaną

Proto-West Germanic *laggjan

Old English leċġan

Middle English leyen

English lay

Proto-Indo-European *úd

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-West Germanic *ūt

Old English ūt

▲

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-Germanic *-ai

Proto-Germanic *ūtai

Proto-West Germanic *ūtē

Old English ūte

Middle English oute

English out

English lay outdeverb.

English layoutubor.

Polish layout

Unadapted borrowing from English layout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.jawt/
• Rhymes: -ɛjawt
• Syllabification: lay‧out

Noun

layout m inan

1. (Internet, publishing) layout (physical arrangement of content on a page)

Declension

Declension of layout

	singular	plural
nominative	layout	layouty
genitive	layoutu	layoutów
dative	layoutowi	layoutom
accusative	layout	layouty
instrumental	layoutem	layoutami
locative	layoucie	layoutach
vocative	layoucie	layouty

Further reading

• “layout”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• leiaute (Brazil)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *logʰéyeti

Proto-Germanic *lagjaną

Proto-West Germanic *laggjan

Old English leċġan

Middle English leyen

English lay

Proto-Indo-European *úd

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-West Germanic *ūt

Old English ūt

▲

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-Germanic *-ai

Proto-Germanic *ūtai

Proto-West Germanic *ūtē

Old English ūte

Middle English oute

English out

English lay outdeverb.

English layoutubor.

Portuguese layout

Unadapted borrowing from English layout.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lejˈaw.t͡ʃi/ [leɪ̯ˈaʊ̯.t͡ʃi]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐjˈawt/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐjˈawt/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /lejˈawt/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /lejˈawt/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /leˈawt/

Noun

layout m (plural layouts)

1. (publishing, Internet) layout (physical arrangement of content on a page)

Further reading

• “layout”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *logʰéyeti

Proto-Germanic *lagjaną

Proto-West Germanic *laggjan

Old English leċġan

Middle English leyen

English lay

Proto-Indo-European *úd

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-West Germanic *ūt

Old English ūt

▲

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-Germanic *-ai

Proto-Germanic *ūtai

Proto-West Germanic *ūtē

Old English ūte

Middle English oute

English out

English lay outdeverb.

English layoutubor.

Romanian layout

Unadapted borrowing from English layout.

Noun

layout n (plural layouturi)

1. layout

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	layout	layoutul	layouturi	layouturile
genitive-dative	layout	layoutului	layouturi	layouturilor
vocative	layoutule		layouturilor

Slovak

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *logʰéyeti

Proto-Germanic *lagjaną

Proto-West Germanic *laggjan

Old English leċġan

Middle English leyen

English lay

Proto-Indo-European *úd

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-West Germanic *ūt

Old English ūt

▲

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-Germanic *-ai

Proto-Germanic *ūtai

Proto-West Germanic *ūtē

Old English ūte

Middle English oute

English out

English lay outdeverb.

English layoutubor.

Slovak layout

Unadapted borrowing from English layout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lejaut/, [ˈlejaut]
• Rhymes: -aut

Noun

layout m inan

1. (publishing, Internet) layout

Declension

Declension of layout
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	layout	layouty
genitive	layoutu	layoutov
dative	layoutu	layoutom
accusative	layout	layouty
locative	layoute	layoutoch
instrumental	layoutom	layoutmi

Further reading

• “layout”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English layout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛjaʊt/

Noun

layout c

1. layout

Declension

Declension of layout

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	layout	layouts
	definite	layouten	layoutens
plural	indefinite	layouter	layouters
	definite	layouterna	layouternas