desuetude
The state when something is no longer observed nor practisedThe state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence.
» That tradition has fallen into desuetude.
Эта традиция ушла в небытие.
Эта традиция канула в Лету.
Meaning
3 senses(formal, uncountable)The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence.
a state of inactivity or disuse
The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence.
(countable, formal)An instance of this.
(countable, formal, obsolete)Chiefly followed by from or of: a cessation of practising or using something.
Examples
1 sentencesThat tradition has fallen into desuetude.
ruЭта традиция ушла в небытие. — shanghainese
Translations
5 languagesOrigin
From Late Middle English desuetude, dissuetude (“discontinuance of a practice, disuse”), fFrom 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”).
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Forms
plural: desuetudes| Singular | desuetude |
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regular
Synonyms
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2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable