verbfirst/second-declension participle
cōnsuētus
cōnsuētus (feminine cōnsuēta, neuter cōnsuētum)
Meaning
- participleaccustomed, habituated
- participleas a euphemism for an intimate relationship
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.)166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 135–136
consŭētus, a, um, Part. and P. a., v. consuesco
I. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
cōnsuētus adj. with sup.
P. of consuesco, used, accustomed, usual, ordinary, wonted, customary, familiar: amor, T.: membra, V.: aurae, O.: lubido, S.: pericula consueta habere, S.: tibi finis, O.: consuetissima cuique Verba, O.
Origins
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”).
Descendants
- Catalanconsuet
- Italianconsueto