coustume

Middle French

Etymology

PIE word
*ḱóm

PIE word
*swé

From Old French coustume.

Noun

coustume f (plural coustumes)

1. custom; tradition
   • 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 59:

     Beaux seigneurs vous scavez bien que la coustume de ceans est telle que nous devons eslire cellui a nostre escient qui le mieulx a fait au tournoiement.

     Good sirs, you know very well that our custom is that we have to choose who, to the best of our knowledge, has performed the best in the tournament.

Descendants

• French: coutume, coûtume (dated spelling)
  • → Danish: kutyme
  • → Esperanto: kutimo

Old French

Alternative forms

• costume, (Anglo-Norman) custume

Etymology

PIE word
*ḱóm

PIE word
*swé

Inherited from Latin cōnsuētūdinem. Doublet of consuetude, which was borrowed.

Noun

coustume oblique singular, f (oblique plural coustumes, nominative singular coustume, nominative plural coustumes)

1. order
2. custom; tradition

Descendants

• Middle French: coustume
  • French: coutume, coûtume (dated spelling)
    • → Danish: kutyme
    • → Esperanto: kutimo
• Guernsey Norman: couteume
• → Middle English: custume
  • English: custom