different between costume vs livery

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 1

From Anglo-Norman liveree, from Old French livree. Compare modern French livrée.

Alternative forms

• liveray

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?v.?.?i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?v.??/, /?l?v.?.??/
• Rhymes: -?v(?)??

Noun

livery (countable and uncountable, plural liveries)

1. Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 8:

     And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover ( an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed: yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovel hat; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.

   • 1996, Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

     By wearing livery, the brewers publicly expressed guild association and solidarity.
2. The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
3. The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
4. (US) A taxicab or limousine.
5. (law) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
6. (law) The writ by which property is obtained.
7. (historical) The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
   • 1876, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books:Second Series, Keats

     Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.

9. (historical) A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
10. An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
    • 1825, George Cavendish, Life of Cardinal Wolsey (edited by Samuel Weller Singer)

      The emperor's officers every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar.

11. Release from wardship; deliverance.
12. A low grade of wool.
13. Outward markings, fittings or appearance
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2:

      When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,

      dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,

      Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,

      Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:

Derived terms

• livery stable

Translations

Verb

livery (third-person singular simple present liveries, present participle liverying, simple past and past participle liveried)

1. (archaic) To clothe.

   He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.

Translations

Etymology 2

liver +? -y

Adjective

livery (comparative more livery, superlative most livery)

1. Like liver.
   • 2004, Anne DesBrisay, Capital Dining: Anne DesBrisay's Guide to Ottawa Restaurants, ECW Press ?ISBN, page 19

     We are happy for the chopped mushrooms within the warm goose liver paté, for the coarse, highly seasoned wedge has a robust livery flavour the 'shrooms manage to ease.

   • 2010, Christopher Kimball, Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     A second test was similar, but we brought the internal temperature up to 130 degrees; the texture was chewy, the meat tasted livery, and had not melted.

   • 2010, Fidel Toldr, Handbook of Meat Processing, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 35

     Sulfur-containing compounds (thiols, sulfides, thiazoles, sulfur-substituted furans) can interact with carbonyl compounds to produce a livery flavor.

2. Queasy, liverish.
   • 2011, Dr Dorothy Shepherd, Homoeopathy For The First Aider, Random House ?ISBN, page 58

     The biliousness and livery feeling will disappear and the feeling of joy and happiness will be the reward.

   • 2011, Alec Waugh, Fuel for the Flame, A&C Black ?ISBN

     He felt fresh and buoyant. When he was young, and had taken a siesta, he had felt livery for a couple of hours afterwards, with a tongue like a chicken run

   • 2014, Emily Hahn, China to Me: A Partial Autobiography, Open Road Media ?ISBN

     To like everyone and to be happy with anyone was a virtue and its own reward, but I realized now that for weeks I had been feeling livery, impatient, restless.

Anagrams

• verily