désuet

19th century, learned borrowing from Latin dēsuētus, past participle of dēsuēscere (“to unlearn, disaccustom”). The traditional pronunciation is that with /s/ because the Latin verb is from dē-suēscere, the first ⟨s⟩ being of the root. However, French-speakers tend to analyse it as dés-uet, which gives rise to the now predominant form with /z/.

• IPA^(key): /de.zɥɛ/, /de.sɥɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Homophone: désuets

désuet (feminine désuète, masculine plural désuets, feminine plural désuètes)

1. obsolete, out of use, no longer in use

   Synonym: obsolète

2. out of fashion, out of style, old-fashioned, passé

   Synonyms: suranné, dépassé

• désuétude

• “désuet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• études