obsoletus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of intransitive obsolēscō (“wear out, fall into disuse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ob.soˈleː.tus/, [ɔps̠ɔˈɫ̪eːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ob.soˈle.tus/, [obsoˈlɛːt̪us]

Adjective

obsolētus (feminine obsolēta, neuter obsolētum, comparative obsolētior, adverb obsolētē); first/second-declension participle

1. old, worn out, thrown off
2. obsolete, out-of-date
3. common, ordinary, mean, low

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	obsolētus	obsolēta	obsolētum		obsolētī	obsolētae	obsolēta
genitive	obsolētī	obsolētae	obsolētī		obsolētōrum	obsolētārum	obsolētōrum
dative	obsolētō	obsolētae	obsolētō		obsolētīs
accusative	obsolētum	obsolētam	obsolētum		obsolētōs	obsolētās	obsolēta
ablative	obsolētō	obsolētā	obsolētō		obsolētīs
vocative	obsolēte	obsolēta	obsolētum		obsolētī	obsolētae	obsolēta

Related terms

• obsolēscō

Descendants

• > Middle French: obsolet (inherited)
  • French: obsolète (partly)^[1]
• → Asturian: obsoletu
• → English: obsolete
• → French: obsolète (partly)^[2]
• → Italian: obsoleto
• → Spanish: obsoleto
• → Galician: obsoleto
• → Sicilian: obsoletu
• → Portuguese: obsoleto

References

1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “obsoletus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 286
2. ibid.

Further reading

• “obsoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obsoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obsoletus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• obsoletus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • obsolete, ambiguous expressions: prisca, obsoleta (opp. usitata), ambigua verba
    
  • cast-off clothing: vestitus obsoletus, tritus