different between consuetude vs customary

English

Etymology

From Middle English consuetude, from Middle French consuetude, from Old French consuetude, learnedly borrowed from Latin c?nsu?t?d? (“custom”), from c?nsu?sc? (“accustom, habituate; accustom oneself”), corresponding to con- (“with”) + su?sc? (“become accustomed to”). First element con- derives from cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“with, along”). Second element su?sc? is from Proto-Indo-European *swe-d?h?-sk-, from *swé (“self”) + *d?eh?- (“to put, place, set”); related to Latin suus (“one's own, his own”). Doublet of custom, costume.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?nsw?tju?d/

Noun

consuetude (countable and uncountable, plural consuetudes)

1. Custom, familiarity.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     “the stain hath become engrained by time and consuetude; let thy reformation be cautious, as it is just and wise.”

Old French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin c?nsu?t?d? (“custom”), whence also coustume, costume. From c?nsu?sc? (“accustom, habituate”), from con- (“with”) + su?sc? (“become used or accustomed to”). First element con- derives from cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“with, along”). Second element su?sc? is from Proto-Indo-European *swe-d?h?-sk-, from *swé (“self”) + *d?eh?- (“to put, place, set”); related to Latin suus (“one's own, his own”).

Noun

consuetude f (oblique plural consuetudes, nominative singular consuetude, nominative plural consuetudes)

1. custom

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?st?m(?)?i/

Noun

customary (plural customaries)

1. A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.

Translations

Adjective

customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)

1. In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage

   Synonyms: conventional, habitual

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

2. Holding or held by custom

Synonyms

• wont

Derived terms

• customarily

Related terms

• consuetude
• costumal
• costume
• custom
• customer
• customization
• customize

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