désuet
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See also: desuet
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]19th century, learned borrowing from Latin dēsuētus, past participle of dēsuēscere (“to unlearn, disaccustom”). The traditional pronunciation is that with /s/ because the Latin verb is from dē-suēscere, the first ⟨s⟩ being of the root. However, French-speakers tend to analyse it as dés-uet, which gives rise to the now predominant form with /z/.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]désuet (feminine désuète, masculine plural désuets, feminine plural désuètes)
- obsolete, out of use, no longer in use
- Synonym: obsolète
- out of fashion, out of style, old-fashioned, passé
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “désuet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.