English
usage
Usage comes from Anglo-Norman usage.
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400usage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500usage
- Englishearliest quotation 1596usage
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400usage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500usage
- Englishearliest quotation 1596usage
Earliest quotation: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Book IV, Canto IV: “Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That…”
Equivalent to use + -age
Proto-Italic *oitōr ‘to use’
Latin ūtor
Latin ūsus ‘use’
Old French us ‘tradition or custom’
Middle English use
English use
Every English word from Anglo-Norman usage
Today it means
noun A custom or established practice.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Anglo-Norman usage / usage