costume

costume

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costume, from Latin consuētūdō (“custom, habit”). Doublet of consuetude and custom.

Verb circa 1802, perhaps modelled on French costumer.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, noun, verb) IPA(key): /ˈkɒs.tjuːm/, /ˈkɒs.t͡ʃuːm/
  • (General American, noun) IPA(key): /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/, /ˈkɑsˌt͡ʃum/, /ˈkɑs.tʊm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/
  • (General American, verb) IPA(key): /kɑsˈt(j)um/, /kɑsˈt͡ʃum/, /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/, /ˈkɑsˌt͡ʃum/, /ˈkɑs.tʊm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/
  • Rhymes: (noun, verb) -ɒstum, -ɒstjum, -ɒstʃum, -ɒstʊm, -ɒstəm, (verb) -uːm

Noun

costume (countable and uncountable, plural costumes)

  1. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
  2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
  3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
  4. A swimming costume.

Usage notes

  • Despite the meaning "traditional clothes," costume may be considered pejorative by some cultures as a reference to their own traditional dress, owing to interference from the sense "fancy dress, disguise" (such as if their traditional dress has often been appropriated by others as fancy dress). For example, many Indigenous North Americans disfavour the term costume to refer to their traditional and ritual garments and prefer the term regalia.

Synonyms

  • getup
  • outfit

Derived terms

Related terms

  • customary
  • custom

Translations

See also

  • uniform

Verb

costume (third-person singular simple present costumes, present participle costuming, simple past and past participle costumed)

  1. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.

Derived terms

  • recostume

Translations

References

Further reading

  • “costume”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “costume”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • custome

Asturian

Alternative forms

  • custume (Western Asturias)

Etymology

From Old Leonese custume, costume (11th c., Fueru de Lleón); inherited from Latin consuētūdinem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kosˈtume/ [kos̪ˈt̪u.me]
  • Rhymes: -ume
  • Syllabification: cos‧tu‧me

Noun

costume f (plural costumes)

  1. custom, tradition
    Synonyms: vezu, zuna, dimisu

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian costume, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem (“custom, habit”). Doublet of consuétude and coutume.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔs.tym/

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

  1. a style of dress characteristic of a particular country, period or people
  2. an outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress
  3. a set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or task
  4. a suit worn by a man

Related terms

  • coutume

Descendants

  • → German: Kostüm
    • → Estonian: kostüüm
  • → English: costume
  • → Romanian: costum
  • → Russian: костю́м (kostjúm)
    • → Azerbaijani: kostyum
    • → Armenian: կոստյում (kostyum)
    • → Georgian: კოსტიუმი (ḳosṭiumi)
    • → Kazakh: костюм (kostüm)
    • → Kyrgyz: костюм (kostyum)
    • → Latvian: kostīms
    • → Lithuanian: kostiumas
    • → Mongolian: костюм (kostjüm)
    • → Turkmen: kostýum
    • → Uyghur: كاستۇم (kastum)
    • → Uzbek: kostyum
    • → Yakut: көстүүм (köstüüm)
  • → Swedish: kostym
  • → Turkish: kostüm

Verb

costume

  1. inflection of costumer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Galician

Alternative forms

  • custume

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese costume, custume (13th c., Cantigas de Santa Maria); inherited from Latin consuētūdinem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kosˈtume/ [kos̺ˈt̪u.mɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ume
  • Hyphenation: cos‧tu‧me

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

  1. custom; tradition (traditional practice or behavior)
    Synonym: tradición
  2. custom; habit (action done on a regular basis)
    Synonyms: hábito, uso
  3. (law) custom (long-established practice, considered as unwritten law)

References

  • Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “costume”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “costume”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “costume”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “costume”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “costume”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin consuētūdinem. Doublet of consuetudine, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈstu.me/
  • Rhymes: -ume
  • Hyphenation: co‧stù‧me

Noun

costume m (plural costumi)

  1. a custom, habit
    Synonyms: usanza, uso, abitudine
  2. a costume
  3. a swimsuit
    Synonym: costume da bagno

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → French: costume (see there for further descendants)

Anagrams

  • mescuto

Old French

Noun

costume oblique singular, m (oblique plural costumes, nominative singular costumes, nominative plural costume)

  1. Alternative form of coustume

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cos‧tu‧me

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin consuētūdinem.

Alternative forms

  • custume (obsolete, now eye dialect)

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

  1. custom; tradition (traditional practice or behavior)
    Synonym: tradição
  2. custom; habit (common or frequently repeated behavior)
    Synonym: hábito
  3. (law) custom (long-established practice, considered as unwritten law)
  4. outfit; costume (a set of clothes appropriate for a particular activity)
    Synonym: traje
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

costume

  1. inflection of costumar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “costume”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
  • “costume”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  • “costume”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
  • “costume”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kos.ˈtu.me/

Noun

costume n pl

  1. plural of costum

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