desuetudo
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dēsuētus + -tūdō, perfect passive participle of dēsuēscō, from dē + suēscō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːs.u̯eːˈtuː.doː/, [d̪eːs̠u̯eːˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.sweˈtu.do/, [d̪esweˈt̪uːd̪o]
Noun[edit]
dēsuētūdō f (genitive dēsuētūdinis); third declension
- discontinuance of a practice or a habit, (law) desuetude
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēsuētūdō | dēsuētūdinēs |
| Genitive | dēsuētūdinis | dēsuētūdinium |
| Dative | dēsuētūdinī | dēsuētūdinibus |
| Accusative | dēsuētūdinem | dēsuētūdinēs dēsuētūdinīs |
| Ablative | dēsuētūdine | dēsuētūdinibus |
| Vocative | dēsuētūdō | dēsuētūdinēs |
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: desuetud
- Galician: desuetude
- Italian: desuetudine
- Middle French: désuétude
- → English: desuetude
- French: désuétude
- Romanian: desuetudine
- Portuguese: dessuetude
- Spanish: desuetud, desuedumbre, desuetúdine
References[edit]
- “desuetudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desuetudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desuetudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.