costum

Inherited from Latin cōnsuētūdinem. Doublet of the borrowing consuetud.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kusˈtum]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kosˈtum]
• Rhymes: -um

costum m (plural costums)

1. habit (something one does regularly)
2. custom; tradition

• habitud

• “costum” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• costus

From Ancient Greek κόστος (kóstos).

costum n (genitive costī); second declension

1. An Oriental aromatic plant

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Italian: costo

• “costum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “costum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• costum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• costum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French costume.

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtum/

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costum n (plural costume)

1. suit
2. outfit
3. costume

• costum de baie