Translation
suit (of clothes); costume
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Word origin
From French costume, borrowed from Italian costume, which meant custom or usage and comes from Latin consuetudo. Painters used it for the dress proper to a period or a place, the customary clothing, and the theatre took the sense from them.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- consuetudo
- English cognates
- costume, custom, accustom
Examples
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He wore a black suit to the party.
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The actor changed his costume after the first part.
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Her suit was blue and very beautiful.
Two senses, and they are genuinely different things rather than two words for one. A is the matching set you wear to an office or a wedding, jako and pantalono cut from the same cloth; it is also what an actor puts on to become somebody else. Context settles it every time, and if you need to be plain, bankostumo is a swimming costume and closes the other door. For clothing in general, reach for vesto.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 1: kostumo, duŝo, turko and 7 more words.