usus.
use, enjoyment; experience, skill, advantage; custom;
Meaning & usage
use, employment, exercise, advantage
practice
experience, discipline, skill
habit, usage, custom, etc., and aspects of the use or practice of something
neediness, necessity, need, want, exigency
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃eyt-der.? Proto-Italic *oitōr Latin ūtor Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin ūsus From ūtor + -tus.
used, employed, having used.
enjoyed, having taken advantage of.
experienced, undergone, having experienced.
worn, having worn.
consumed, having consumed.
Where this word comes from
Perfect active participle of ūtor (“to make use of”).
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