desuetudo

Latin

Etymology

From dēsuētus +‎ -tūdō, perfect passive participle of dēsuēscō, from dē + suēscō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːs.u̯eːˈtuː.doː/, [d̪eːs̠u̯eːˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.sweˈtu.do/, [d̪esweˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

dēsuētūdō f (genitive dēsuētūdinis); third declension

1. discontinuance of a practice or a habit, (law) desuetude

Declension

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

• 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.