consuetudo

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

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

cōnsuētūdō f (genitive cōnsuētūdinis); third declension

1. The act of habituating; state of being habituated or accustomed, habituation.
2. A custom, habit, use, usage, convention, way, tradition; experience.
3. Customary right, common law.
4. The form of speech, usage of a language.
5. Social intercourse, companionship, familiarity, conversation.
6. An intercourse in love, intimacy; love affair, amour, illicit intercourse.

Third-declension noun.

• cōnsuētūdinārius

• cōnsuēscō
• cōnsuētē
• cōnsuētiō

• “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)