different between costume vs gear

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costume, from a Vulgar Latin *c?nsu?t?men or *cost?men, from Latin c?nsu?t?dinem, accusative singular of c?nsu?t?d? (“custom, habit”), 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”). Doublet of consuetude and custom, which shares most of this etymology.

Verb circa 1823.

Pronunciation

• (UK, noun, verb) IPA^(key): /?k?s.tju?m/, /?k?s.t??u?m/
• (General American, noun) IPA^(key): /?k?s?t(j)um/, /?k?s?t??um/, /?k?s.t?m/, /?k?s.t?m/
• (General American, verb) IPA^(key): /k?s?t(j)um/, /k?s?t??um/, /?k?s?t(j)um/, /?k?s?t??um/, /?k?s.t?m/, /?k?s.t?m/

Noun

costume (countable and uncountable, plural costumes)

1. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.

2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.

3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.

Synonyms

• outfit

Derived terms

Related terms

• customary
• custom

Translations

See also

• uniform

Verb

costume (third-person singular simple present costumes, present participle costuming, simple past and past participle costumed)

1. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII

     Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head. His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly. He looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring.

Translations

Further reading

• costume in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• costume in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• custome

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian costume, from a Vulgar Latin *c?nsu?t?men or *cost?men, from Latin c?nsu?t?dinem, accusative singular of c?nsu?t?d? (“custom, habit”), 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”). Doublet of coutume. Cognate with English costume and custom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s.tym/

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

1. A style of dress characteristic of a particular country, period or people
2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress
3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or task
4. A suit worn by a man

Related terms

• coutume

Descendants

• ? German: Kostüm
  • ? Estonian: kostüüm
• ? Romanian: costum
• ? Russian: ??????? (kostjúm)
  • ? Azerbaijani: kostyum
  • ? Armenian: ???????? (kostyum)
  • ? Georgian: ???????? (?os?iumi)
  • ? Kazakh: ?????? (kostywm)
  • ? Kyrgyz: ?????? (kostyum)
  • ? Latvian: kost?ms
  • ? Lithuanian: kostiumas
  • ? Mongolian: ?????? (kostyum)
  • ? Turkmen: kostýum
  • ? Uzbek: kostyum

Verb

costume

1. inflection of costumer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “costume” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• custume

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese costume, custume; from Vulgar Latin *cost?men, *c?nsu?t?men, or *cost?men, from Latin c?nsu?t?dinem, accusative singular of c?nsu?t?d? (“custom, habit”), 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”). Cognate with Portuguese costume, French coutume, and Spanish costumbre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kos?tume?/

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

1. custom; tradition (traditional practice or behavior)

   Synonym: tradición

2. custom; habit (action done on a regular basis)
   • 1326, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 398:

     mandamos que enna friigesía que ouuer XV friigeses ou mays poucos, se non tomaren lobo ou loba ou camada delles, ou non correren cada domaa con elles sen enganno segundo que e de custume des o primeyro sabado de quaresma ata dia de Sam Joham de Juyo, ou non fezeren o ffogio, que pagen X mrs.

     We order that in the parish that has 15 parishioners or more, if they don't catch a wolf or litter of them, or if they don't raid them weekly without trickery, as it is used, since the first Saturday of Lent till Saint John's day in June, or if they don't build the pit, then they shall pay 10 mrs.

   Synonyms: hábito, uso

3. (law) custom (long-established practice, considered as unwritten law)
   • 1389, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 206:

     que ouuo senpre de custume de non meter vinno de fora parte en esta vila et saluo que os visinnos da villa ouueren de sua lauoria et sua marra

     because it was the custom of this town not to introduce wine from the outside, except if the neighbours needed it and lacked it

References

• “costume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “costume” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “costume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “costume” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “costume” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *c?nsu?t?men or *cost?men, from Latin c?nsu?t?dinem, accusative singular of c?nsu?t?d? (“custom, habit”), 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”). Doublet of the borrowed consuetudine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kos?tu.me/
• Hyphenation: co?stù?me

Noun

costume m (plural costumi)

1. A custom, habit

   Synonyms: usanza, uso, abitudine

2. A costume
3. A swimsuit

   Synonym: costume da bagno

Derived terms

• costume da bagno
• costume nazionale
• costumista
• in costume adamitico

Descendants

• ? French: costume

Anagrams

• mescuto

Old French

Alternative forms

• coustume
• custume

Etymology

Related to Old French coustume, from a Vulgar Latin *c?nsu?t?men or *cost?men, from Latin c?nsu?t?dinem, accusative singular of c?nsu?t?d? (“custom, habit”), 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

costume m (oblique plural costumes, nominative singular costumes, nominative plural costume)

1. custom
   • circa 1200, author unknown, Aucassin et Nicolette

     il n'est mie costume que nos entrocions li uns l'autre.

     it is not our habit to kill each other.

Descendants

• English: costume, custom
• French: costume, coutume

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku?.?tu.m?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kos.?tu.mi/, /kus.?tu.mi/
• Hyphenation: cos?tu?me

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese costume, custume, from Vulgar Latin *c?st?men, *c?nsu?t?men, or *cost?men, from Latin c?nsu?t?dinem, accusative singular of c?nsu?t?d? (“custom, habit”), 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

costume m (plural costumes)

1. custom; tradition (traditional practice or behavior)

   Synonym: tradição

2. custom; habit (action done on a regular basis)

   Synonym: hábito

3. (law) custom (long-established practice, considered as unwritten law)
4. outfit; costume (a set of clothes appropriate for a particular activity)

   Synonym: traje

Alternative forms

• custume (obsolete, now eye dialect)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:costume.

Derived terms

• costumar
• costumeiro

Etymology 2

Verb

costume

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of costumar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of costumar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of costumar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of costumar

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:costumar.

Further reading

• “costume” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kos.?tu.me/

Noun

costume n pl

1. plural of costum

English

Etymology

From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijan? (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: gîr, IPA^(key): /???(?)/
• (US) enPR: gîr, IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Noun

gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)

1. (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
2. Clothing; garments.
3. (obsolete) Goods; property; household items.

   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (sometimes spelt Raphe Robynson) (translator), Utopia (originally written by Sir Thomas More)

4. (countable) A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.

   Synonyms: cog, cogwheel, gearwheel

5. (countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
6. (countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
7. (aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.

8. (slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
   • 2003, Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)

9. (uncountable, archaic) Stuff.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:

10. (obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
11. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
    • March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gear (third-person singular simple present gears, present participle gearing, simple past and past participle geared)

1. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
2. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
3. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
4. (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).

   This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.

   They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.

5. (finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

gear (comparative more gear, superlative most gear)

1. (chiefly Liverpudlian) great or fantastic

Anagrams

• Ager, GRAE, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, rage

Manx

Alternative forms

• geayr, geyre

Etymology

From Old Irish gér.

Verb

gear (verbal noun gearey)

1. to laugh, chuckle

Adjective

gear

1. sharp, keen
2. sour, acid

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Alternative forms

• ??r, ??r – Anglian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *j?r?, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?r-. Cognate with Old Frisian j?r (West Frisian jier), Old Saxon j?r (Middle Low German jâr), Dutch jaar, Old High German j?r (German Jahr), Old Norse ár (Danish/Norwegian/Swedish år, Icelandic/Faroese ár), Gothic ???????????? (j?r). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra, “season”), Russian ??? (jara), Czech jaro, Lithuanian jore (“springtime”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæ???r/

Noun

??ar n (nominative plural ??ar)

1. year
2. the runic character ? (/j/)

Declension

Derived terms

• ??ardagas
• ??arl??
• ?e?ra (uncertain)

Descendants

• Middle English: yeer, here, yere, ?ere
  • English: year
  • Scots: year

Portuguese

Etymology

From an Old Portuguese *gear (compare geo), from Latin gel?re, present active infinitive of gel?. Doublet of the borrowing gelar. Compare also Galician xear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i?a?]

Verb

gear (first-person singular present indicative geio, past participle geado)

1. (impersonal) to frost (weather)

Conjugation

Related terms

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????r/

Adverb

gear

1. together

Further reading

• “gear (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011