different between routine vs jejune

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?u??ti?n/

Noun

routine (countable and uncountable, plural routines)

1. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
2. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.

   Synonym: rut
3. A set piece of an entertainer's act.

4. (computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

   Synonyms: function, procedure, subroutine

Derived terms

• routiner

Translations

Adjective

routine (comparative more routine, superlative most routine)

1. According to established procedure.
2. Regular; habitual.
3. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

Derived terms

• routinely

Translations

Anagrams

• in route, in utero, tue-iron

French

Etymology

From French route (“road, route”), and Old French -ine: a suffix for diminutive purpose

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.tin/

Noun

routine f (plural routines)

1. routine (all senses)
2. (Louisiana, Cajun French, St.Mary Parish) road

Derived terms

• prendre sa routine à volonté

Descendants

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ouïrent

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Noun

routine f (invariable)

1. routine
2. rut

Derived terms

• routinario

Anagrams

• rutenio, uterino

Further reading

• routine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin i?i?nus (“fasting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???d?u?n/, /d?i?d?u?n/, /????u?n/

Adjective

jejune (comparative more jejune, superlative most jejune)

1. (dated, now rare) Not nutritious.
2. (by extension, of a speech or an argument) Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.

   Synonyms: dry, insipid, poor

3. Naive; simplistic.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:naive

Translations

Related terms

• jejunum

Latin

Adjective

jej?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of jej?nus

References

• jejune in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• jejune in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette