desuetude

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɛswɪtjuːd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪˈs(j)uːɪtjuːd/
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• General-American: /ˈdɛswəˌt(j)ud/
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• General-American: /dəˈsuəˌtud/
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From Late Middle English desuetude, dissuetude (“discontinuance of a practice, disuse”), from Middle French désuétude (“obsolescence”) (modern French désuétude), from Latin dēsuētūdo (“discontinuance of a practice or a habit, disuse”), from dēsuētus + -tūdō (“suffix forming abstract nouns indicating conditions or states”). Dēsuētus is the perfect passive participle of dēsuēscō (“to make unaccustomed”), from de- (prefix having a reversing or undoing effect) + suēscō (“to become accustomed or used to; (Late Latin) to accustom, habituate, train”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”) + *dheh1- (“to do; to place, put”), in the sense “to set as one’s own”).

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: неупотреба (neupotreba) — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Bulgarian: отживялост (otživjalost) — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Catalan: desuetud — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Chinese Mandarin: 廢止 /废止 (fèizhǐ) — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Dutch: onbruik — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Finnish: käytöstä poistuminen — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• French: désuétude — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• French: abandon — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• French: oubli — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Galician: desuetude — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Ido: obsoleteso — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Italian: desuetudine — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Italian: disuso — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Japanese: 廃止 (haishi) — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Polish: desuetudo — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Portuguese: dessuetude — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Portuguese: desuso — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-fheumalachd — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Serbo-Croatian: одвика — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Serbo-Croatian: odvika — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Sicilian: disutùdini — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Sicilian: disusu — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Spanish: desuetud — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence
• Spanish: desuso — state when something is no longer observed nor practised; an instance of this — see also disuse, obsolescence