consuetudo

Latin

Etymology

From cōnsuēscō (“accustom, habituate; accustom oneself”) +‎ -tūdō, from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to; accustom, train”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.su̯eːˈtuː.doː/, [kõːs̠u̯eːˈt̪uːd̪oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.sweˈtu.do/, [konsweˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

cōnsuētūdō f (genitive cōnsuētūdinis); third declension

The act of habituating; state of being habituated or accustomed, habituation.
A custom, habit, use, usage, convention, way, tradition; experience.
Customary right, common law.
The form of speech, usage of a language.
Social intercourse, companionship, familiarity, conversation.
An intercourse in love, intimacy; love affair, amour, illicit intercourse.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnsuētūdō	cōnsuētūdinēs
genitive	cōnsuētūdinis	cōnsuētūdinum
dative	cōnsuētūdinī	cōnsuētūdinibus
accusative	cōnsuētūdinem	cōnsuētūdinēs
ablative	cōnsuētūdine	cōnsuētūdinibus
vocative	cōnsuētūdō	cōnsuētūdinēs

Derived terms

cōnsuētūdinārius

Related terms

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: costume
  - → French: costume (see there for further descendants)
Padanian:
- Piedmontese: costuma, costum
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: costuma, costum
  - Catalan: costum
- Franco-Provençal: cotema
- Old French: coustume (see there for further descendants)
- Occitan: costuma
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: costume, custume
  - Galician: costume
  - Portuguese: costume
- Spanish: costumbre
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: consuetud
- → Italian: consuetudine
- → Old French: consuetude
  - Middle French: consuetude
    - French: consuétude
    - → Middle English: consuetude
      - English: consuetude
- → Spanish: consuetud

References

“consuetudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“consuetudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
consuetudo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
consuetudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the spirit of the times, the fashion: saeculi consuetudo or ratio atque inclinatio temporis (temporum)
- to usage of language: consuetudo sermonis, loquendi
- the ordinary usage of language, everyday speech: communis sermonis consuetudo
- the expression is not in accordance with Latin usage: aliquid a consuetudine sermonis latini abhorret, alienum est
- incorrect usage: consuetudo vitiosa et corrupta (opp. pura et incorrupta) sermonis
- to pass into a proverb: in proverbii consuetudinem or simply in proverbium venire
- to be on friendly terms with a person: usu, familiaritate, consuetudine coniunctum esse cum aliquo
- to be on friendly terms with a person: est mihi consuetudo, or usus cum aliquo
- to attach a person to oneself: devincire aliquem consuetudine
- to devote oneself to a person's society: se dare in consuetudinem alicuius
- to insinuate oneself into a person's society: se insinuare in consuetudinem alicuius (Fam. 4. 13. 6)
- to become customary, the fashion: in consuetudinem or morem venire
- to keep up a usage: consuetudinem suam tenere, retinere,[TR1] servare
- a custom is taking root, growing up: consuetudo inveterascit (B. G. 5. 41. 5)
- to give up old customs: a vetere consuetudine discedere
- to give up old customs: a pristina consuetudine deflectere
- to return to ancient usage: in pristinam consuetudinem revocare aliquid
- it is my custom: aliquid est meae consuetudinis
- it is my custom: aliquid cadit in meam consuetudinem
- so custom, fashion prescribes: ita fert consuetudo
- according to my custom: ex consuetudine mea (opp. praeter consuetudinem)