désuétude
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See also: desuetude
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin dēsuētūdō (“disuse”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]désuétude f (plural désuétudes)
- disuse
- Near-synonym: abandon
- laisser tomber en désuétude une coutume barbare ― to let a barbaric custom fall into disuse
- C’est un terme tombé en désuétude depuis des années. ― It's a term which fell out of use years ago.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: desuetude
References
[edit]- “désuétude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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