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Latin
Etymology
Perfect active participle of intransitive obsolēscō (“wear out, fall into disuse”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
obsolētus (feminine obsolēta, neuter obsolētum, comparative obsolētior, adverb obsolētē); first/second-declension participle
- old, worn out, thrown off
- obsolete, out-of-date
- common, ordinary, mean, low
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
Further reading
- “obsoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obsoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obsoletus 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)
- obsoletus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- obsolete, ambiguous expressions: prisca, obsoleta (opp. usitata), ambigua verba
- cast-off clothing: vestitus obsoletus, tritus