desuetudo
Latin
Etymology
From dēsuētus + -tūdō, perfect passive participle of dēsuēscō, from dē + suēscō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deː.sʷeːˈtuː.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪e.sʷeˈt̪uː.d̪o]
Noun
dēsuētūdō f (genitive dēsuētūdinis); third declension
- discontinuance of a practice or a habit, (law) desuetude
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēsuētūdō | dēsuētūdinēs |
| genitive | dēsuētūdinis | dēsuētūdinium |
| dative | dēsuētūdinī | dēsuētūdinibus |
| accusative | dēsuētūdinem | dēsuētūdinēs dēsuētūdinīs |
| ablative | dēsuētūdine | dēsuētūdinibus |
| vocative | dēsuētūdō | dēsuētūdinēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: desuetud
- Galician: desuetude
- Italian: desuetudine
- Middle French: désuétude
- → English: desuetude
- French: désuétude
- Romanian: desuetudine
- Portuguese: dessuetude
- Spanish: desuetud, desuedumbre, desuetúdine
References
- “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.