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Latin
Etymology
From nominal ūsus (“use”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns or numerals).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ūsuālis (neuter ūsuāle, adverb ūsuāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- that is for use, that is in service: utilitarian
- that is fit for use, that serves one's use: useful, noteful, serviceable
- that is of common or frequent use: usual, common, ordinary, customary, habitual, everyday
- Synonyms: cotīdiānus, ōrdinārius, sollemnis
- (Medieval Latin) current (in use, not obsolete)
- (Medieval Latin) subject to ordinary customs, duties, and/or taxes
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “ūsŭālis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ūsŭālis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,634/1.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “usualis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,053/2