consuetus

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”).

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.)

First/second-declension adjective.

• cōnsuēfaciō

• → Catalan: consuet
• Italian: consueto

• “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.