# consuetudo
## Latin
### Etymology

From cōnsuēscō (“accustom, habituate; accustom oneself”) +‎ -tūdō, from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to; accustom, train”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kon.su̯eːˈtuː.doː/, [kõːs̠u̯eːˈt̪uːd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kon.sweˈtu.do/, [konsweˈt̪uːd̪o]

### Noun

cōnsuētūdō f (genitive cōnsuētūdinis); third declension
* The act of habituating; state of being habituated or accustomed, habituation.
* A custom, habit, use, usage, convention, way, tradition; experience.
* Customary right, common law.
* The form of speech, usage of a language.
* Social intercourse, companionship, familiarity, conversation.
* An intercourse in love, intimacy; love affair, amour, illicit intercourse.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* cōnsuētūdinārius

#### Related terms

* cōnsuēscō
* cōnsuētē
* cōnsuētiō

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: costume
*** → French: costume (see there for further descendants)
* Padanian:
** Piedmontese: costuma, costum
* Gallo-Romance:
** Old Catalan: costuma, costum
*** Catalan: costum
** Franco-Provençal: cotema
** Old French: coustume (see there for further descendants)
** Occitan: costuma
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: costume, custume
*** Galician: costume
*** Portuguese: costume
** Spanish: costumbre
* Borrowings:
** → Catalan: consuetud
** → Italian: consuetudine
** → Old French: consuetude
*** Middle French: consuetude
**** French: consuétude
**** → Middle English: consuetude
***** English: consuetude
** → Spanish: consuetud

### References

* “consuetudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “consuetudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "consuetudo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* consuetudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the spirit of the times, the fashion: saeculi consuetudo or ratio atque inclinatio temporis (temporum) to usage of language: consuetudo sermonis, loquendi the ordinary usage of language, everyday speech: communis sermonis consuetudo the expression is not in accordance with Latin usage: aliquid a consuetudine sermonis latini abhorret, alienum est incorrect usage: consuetudo vitiosa et corrupta (opp. pura et incorrupta) sermonis to pass into a proverb: in proverbii consuetudinem or simply in proverbium venire to be on friendly terms with a person: usu, familiaritate, consuetudine coniunctum esse cum aliquo to be on friendly terms with a person: est mihi consuetudo, or usus cum aliquo to attach a person to oneself: devincire aliquem consuetudine to devote oneself to a person's society: se dare in consuetudinem alicuius to insinuate oneself into a person's society: se insinuare in consuetudinem alicuius (Fam. 4. 13. 6) to become customary, the fashion: in consuetudinem or morem venire to keep up a usage: consuetudinem suam tenere, retinere,[TR1] servare a custom is taking root, growing up: consuetudo inveterascit (B. G. 5. 41. 5) to give up old customs: a vetere consuetudine discedere to give up old customs: a pristina consuetudine deflectere to return to ancient usage: in pristinam consuetudinem revocare aliquid it is my custom: aliquid est meae consuetudinis it is my custom: aliquid cadit in meam consuetudinem so custom, fashion prescribes: ita fert consuetudo according to my custom: ex consuetudine mea (opp. praeter consuetudinem)