consuetus

Latin

Etymology

PIE word
*ḱóm

PIE word
*swé

Perfect passive participle of cōnsuēscō, from con- + suēscō (“become accustomed”). 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”).

Participle

cōnsuētus (feminine cōnsuēta, neuter cōnsuētum); first/second-declension participle

1. accustomed, habituated
2. as a euphemism for an intimate relationship
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 135–136:

     Tum illa — ut cōnsuētum facile amōrem cernerēs — / reiēcit sē in eum, flēns, quam familiāriter!

     [Translating loosely, ironically] Then she — in such a way that you might easily tell [they were] no strangers to love — threw herself upon him, weeping, how very intimately!
     (In other words, Glycerium (she) and Pamphilus revealed that they were already “accustomed” to being lovers.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cōnsuētus	cōnsuēta	cōnsuētum		cōnsuētī	cōnsuētae	cōnsuēta
genitive	cōnsuētī	cōnsuētae	cōnsuētī		cōnsuētōrum	cōnsuētārum	cōnsuētōrum
dative	cōnsuētō	cōnsuētae	cōnsuētō		cōnsuētīs
accusative	cōnsuētum	cōnsuētam	cōnsuētum		cōnsuētōs	cōnsuētās	cōnsuēta
ablative	cōnsuētō	cōnsuētā	cōnsuētō		cōnsuētīs
vocative	cōnsuēte	cōnsuēta	cōnsuētum		cōnsuētī	cōnsuētae	cōnsuēta

Related terms

• cōnsuēfaciō

Descendants

• → Catalan: consuet
• Italian: consueto

References

• “consuetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “consuetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “consuetus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.