Where does “accustomed” come from?

Accustomed comes from Old French acoustumer, which derives from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -tós, a suffix forming adjectives from verbal roots.

accustomed (English): Familiar with something through repeated...

Definitions

  1. Familiar with something through repeated...

Ancestry of “accustomed”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
2Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
3Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

Words derived from “accustomed

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