désuet

Signification (Anglais)

1. obsolete, out of use, no longer in use
2. out of fashion, out of style, old-fashioned, passé

Synonymes

obsolète

démodé

dépassé

hors d’usage

passé de mode

périmé

suranné

antique

qui n’est pas de son temps

archaïque

ex

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/de.zɥɛ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Emprunté à latin: dēsuētus

In summary

19th century, learned borrowing from Latin dēsuētus, past participle of dēsuēscere (“to unlearn, disaccustom”). The traditional pronunciation is that with /s/ because the Latin verb is from dē-suēscere, the first ⟨s⟩ being of the root. However, French-speakers tend to analyse it as dés-uet, which gives rise to the now predominant form with /z/.