coutume

French

Etymology

PIE word
*ḱóm

PIE word
*swé

From Old French coustume, from a Vulgar Latin *cōnsuētūmen or *costūmen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem, accusative singular of cōnsuētūdō (“custom, habit”), from cōnsuēscō (“accustom, habituate”), from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). First element con- derives from cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, along”). Second element suēscō is from Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁-sk-, from *swé (“self”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”); related to Latin suus (“one's own, his own”). Compare also Medieval Latin costuma. Doublet of costume and consuétude. Cognate with Spanish costumbre, Catalan costum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.tym/

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Noun

coutume f (plural coutumes)

1. custom

Derived terms

• accoutumer
• autre pays, autre coutume
• coutumier
• de coutume
• une fois n’est pas coutume
• us et coutumes

 

Descendants

• → Danish: kutyme
• → Esperanto: kutimo

Further reading

• “coutume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.