English
routine
Routine is borrowed from French routine (route + -ine), from route ‘road’, further from Latin rupta via ‘broken road’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErupta via
- Frenchc. 1600–presentroute‘road, route’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentroutine
- Englishearliest quotation 1915routine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErupta via
- Frenchc. 1600–presentroute‘road, route’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentroutine
- Englishearliest quotation 1915routine
Earliest quotation: 1915, George A. Birmingham pseudonym; James Ow, New York: “It is never possible to settle down to the…”
The story
Also compare Czech běžný (< běžet), Russian обихо́д (obixód), обихо́дный (obixódnyj) (akin to ходи́ть (xodítʹ)).
Linked words
through Latin ruptus ‘broken’
through Old French rote ‘route, path’
Today it means
noun A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin rupta via / routine