idiom of language

consŭētūdo, ĭnis, f. [consuesco].

A being accustomed, custom, habit, use, usage.

In gen. (very freq. in all periods, esp. in prose):

exercitatio ex quā consuetudo gignitur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

dicunt... consuetudine quasi alteram naturam effici,

id. Fin. 5, 25, 74:

ad parentium consuetudinem moremque deducimur,

id. Off. 1, 32, 118; id. Mil. 1, 1; id. Clu. 38, 96:

majorum,

id. Div. in Caecil. 21, 67; cf. id. ib. 2, 5:

Siculorum ceterorumque Graecorum,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 129; id. de Or. 2, 3, 13; Caes. B. G. 1, 45; cf. id. ib. 1, 43:

eorum dierum,

id. ib. 2, 17:

non est meae consuetudinis rationem reddere, etc.,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 1, 1: con [p. 441] suetudo mea fert, id. Caecin. 29, 85:

consuetudinem tenere, etc.,

id. Phil. 1, 11, 27:

haec ad nostram consuetudinem sunt levia,

Nep. Epam. 2, 3:

contra morem consuetudinemque civilem aliquid facere,

Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148:

quod apud Germanos ea consuetudo esset, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 50; cf. with ut, id. ib. 4, 5:

cottidianae vitae,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 42:

virtutem ex consuetudine vitae sermonisque nostri interpretemur,

Cic. Lael. 6, 21; cf.:

vitae meae,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 2;

and sermonis,

id. Fat. 11, 24; Quint. 1, 6, 45:

communis sensūs,

Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 12:

jam in proverbii consuetudinem venit,

id. Off. 2, 15, 55:

victūs,

id. Att. 12, 26, 2; Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

otii,

Quint. 1, 3, 11 al.:

peccandi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 76, § 176; Quint. 7, 2, 44:

splendidior loquendi,

Cic. Brut. 20, 78:

loquendi,

Quint. 1, 6, 43; 11, 1, 12:

dicendi,

Cic. Mur. 13, 29; Quint. 2, 4, 16:

docendi,

id. 2, 5, 2:

vivendi,

id. 1, 6, 45:

immanis ac barbara hominum immolandorum,

Cic. Font. 10, 21; cf.:

classium certis diebus audiendarum,

Quint. 10, 5, 21 al.:

indocta,

Cic. Or. 48, 161: mala, * Hor. S. 1, 3, 36:

assidua,

Quint. 1, 1, 13:

longa,

id. 2, 5, 2:

vetus,

id. 1, 6, 43:

communis,

id. 11, 1, 12; 12, 2, 19:

vulgaris,

id. 2, 13, 11; Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 248:

bene facere jam ex consuetudine in naturam vortit,

Sall. J. 85, 9:

omnia quae in consuetudine probantur,

generally, Cic. Ac. 2, 24, 75:

negant umquam solam hanc alitem (aquilam) fulmine exanimatam. Ideo armigeram Jovis consuetudo judicavit,

the general opinion, Plin. 10, 3, 4, § 15.—

With prepp., ex consuetudine, pro consuetudine, and absol. consuetudine, according to or from custom, by or from habit, in a usual or customary manner, etc.:

Germani celeriter ex consuetudine suā phalange factā impetus gladiorum exceperunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52; so with ex, Sall. J. 71, 4; 85, 9; Quint. 2, 5, 1; Suet. Ner. 42 al.:

pro meā consuetudine,

according to my custom, Cic. Arch. 12, 32:

consuetudine suā Caesar sex legiones expeditas ducebat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 19; 2, 32:

consuetudine animus rursus te huc inducet,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 41:

huc cum se consuetudine reclinaverunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 27 fin.; so id. ib. 7, 24, 2; Sall. J. 31, 25 al.—Less freq.: praeter consuetudinem, contrary to experience, unexpectedly (opp. praeter naturam), Cic. Div. 2, 28, 60:

plures praeter consuetudinem armatos apparere,

contrary to custom, Nep. Hann. 12, 4; cf.:

contra consuetudinem,

Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148:

supra consuetudinem,

Cels. 2, 2.—

Esp.

Customary right, usage as a common law:

(jus) constat ex his partibus: naturā, lege, consuetudine, judicato... consuetudine jus est id, quod sine lege aeque ac si legitimum sit, usitatum est,

Auct. Her. 2, 13, 19; Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 162:

consuetudine jus esse putatur id, quod voluntate omnium sine lege vetustas comprobavit,

id. ib. 2, 22, 67; Varr. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 601; Cic. Caecin. 8, 23; id. Div. in Caecil. 2, 5; Dig. 1, 3, 32.—

In gram. (instead of consuetudo loquendi; cf. supra), a usage or idiom of language, Varr. L. L. in 8th and 9th books on almost every page; Cic. Or. 47, 157; Quint. 1, 6, 3; 1, 6, 16; 2, 5, 2.—Hence,

In Col. for language in gen.:

consuetudini Latinae oeconomicum Xenophontis tradere,

Col. 12, praef. §

7: nostra (opp. Graeca),

id. 6, 17, 7.—

Social intercourse, companionship, familiarity, conversation (freq. and class; in an honorable sense most freq. in Cic.).

In gen.:

(Deiotarus) cum hominibus nostris consuetudines, amicitias, res rationesque jungebat,

Cic. Deiot. 9, 27; so in plur.:

victūs cum multis,

id. Mil. 8, 21; and in sing.:

victūs,

id. Or. 10, 33:

domesticus usus et consuetudo est alicui cum aliquo,

id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15; cf. id. Fam. 13, 23, 1:

consuetudine conjuncti inter nos sumus,

id. Att. 1, 16, 11:

consuetudine ac familiaritate,

id. Quint. 3, 12;

so with familiaritas,

id. Fam. 10, 3, 1:

dare se in consuetudinem,

id. Pis. 28, 68:

insinuare in alicujus consuetudinem,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 6; cf.:

immergere se in consuetudinem alicujus,

id. Clu. 13, 36:

epistularum,

epistolary correspondence, id. Fam. 4, 13, 1:

nutrimentorum,

community, Suet. Calig. 9.—

In partic., intercourse in love, in an honorable, and more freq. in a dishonorable sense, a love affair, an amour, love intrique, illicit intercourse, Ter. And. 3, 3, 28; id. Hec. 3, 3, 44; Suet. Tib. 7; id. Ner. 35; Ter. And. 1, 1, 83; 1, 5, 44; 2, 6, 8; Liv. 39, 9, 6 and 7; Quint. 5, 11, 34; Suet. Tit. 10 al.—

So also freq.: consuetudo stupri,

Sall. C. 23, 3; Suet. Calig. 24; id. Oth. 2; Curt. 4, 10, 31.

lingua (ante-class. form dingua, like dagrima for lacrima, Mar. Victorin. p. 2457 and 2470 P.; cf. the letter D), ae, f. [Sanscr. jihvā; original Lat. form. dingua; A. -S. tunga; Germ. Zunge; Engl. tongue. Not from the root lih, lich, v. lingo], the tongue.

Lit.:

fac proserpentem bestiam me duplicem ut habeam linguam (of a kiss in which the tongues touched each other),

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 105:

lingua haeret metu,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 7:

in ore sita lingua est, finita dentibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149:

linguā haesitantes,

id. de Or. 1, 25, 115:

linguā properanti legere,

Ov. P. 3, 5, 9:

linguā titubante loqui,

id. Tr. 3, 1, 21:

quo facilius verba ore libero exprimeret, calculos lingua volvens dicere domi solebat (Demosthenes),

Quint. 11, 3, 54: linguam exserere, to thrust out the tongue, in token of derision or contempt, Liv. 7, 10: so,

lingua ejecta,

Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266:

lingua minor,

the epiglottis, Plin. 11, 37, 66, § 175.—Comically, as mock term of endearment:

hujus voluptas, te opsecro, hujus mel, hujus cor, hujus labellum, hujus lingua,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 178; cf. v. 175.—In mal. part.: homo malae linguae, a fellow with a bad tongue, i. q. fellator, Mart. 3, 80, 2; Min. Fel. Oct. 28.—

Transf.

Since the tongue is an organ of speech, a tongue, utterance, speech, language:

largus opum, lingua melior,

Verg. A. 11, 338:

facilem benevolumque lingua tua jam tibi me reddidit,

Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 35:

non tu tibi istam praetruncari linguam largiloquam jubes?

Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 47:

Latium beare divite linguā,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 120:

lingua quasi flabello seditionis contionem ventilare,

Cic. Fl. 23, 54:

linguam continere,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13:

tenere,

Ov. F. 2, 602:

moderari,

Sall. J. 84:

linguae solutio,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 114:

linguam solvere ad jurgia,

Ov. M. 3, 261:

quidam operarii linguā celeri et exercitatā,

Cic. de Or. 1, 18, 83:

ut vitemus linguas hominum,

id. Fam. 9, 2, 2:

Aetolorum linguas retundere,

to check their tongues, bring them to silence, Liv. 33, 3; cf.:

claudente noxarum conscientiā linguam,

Amm. 16, 12, 61:

si mihi lingua foret,

Ov. H. 21, 205:

ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro,

Verg. E. 7, 28: favete linguis, i. e. give attention, " be silent that you may hear," Hor. C. 3, 1, 2; Ov. F. 1, 71:

linguis animisque faventes,

Juv. 12, 83:

nam lingua mali pars pessima servi,

id. 9, 121:

mercedem imponere linguae,

i. e. to speak for pay, id. 7, 149:

usum linguae reciperare,

Amm. 17, 12, 10:

linguā debili esse,

to stammer, Gell. 1, 12, 2.—Comically: os habeat, linguam, perfidiam, tongue, i. e. readiness in speech, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 33. —

The tongue or language of a people:

lingua Latina, Graeca,

Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10:

Graeca et Latina lingua,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 6:

(Massilia) tam procul a Graecorum regionibus, disciplinis linguāque divisa,

Cic. Fl. 26, 63:

quod quidem Latina lingua sic observat, ut, etc.,

id. Or. 44, 150:

Gallicae linguae scientiam habere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 47:

qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli, appellantur,

id. ib. 1, 1:

dissimili linguā,

Sall. C. 6, 2:

linguā utrāque,

i. e. Greek and Latin, Hor. S. 1, 10, 23; so, auctores utriusque linguae, Quint. prooem. 1;

1, 1, 14: Mithridates, cui duas et viginti linguas notas fuisse,

id. 11, 2, 50:

haud rudis Graecae linguae,

Curt. 5, 11, 4; 5, 4, 4; Nep. Milt. 3, 2:

Syrus in Tiberim Orontes et linguam et mores vexit,

Juv. 3, 63.—

Dialect, idiom, mode of speech (post-Aug.): illis non verborum modo, sed. linguarum etiam se inter differentium copia est. Quint. 12, 10, 34:

Crassus quinque Graeci sermonis differentias sic tenuit, ut, qua quisque apud eum linguā postulasset, eadem jus sibi redditum ferret,

id. 11, 2, 50:

utar enim historicā linguā,

Sen. Q. N. 1, 13, 3:

si philosophorum linguā uti voluissem,

id. ib. 2, 2, 4.—

Poet. of animals. the voice, note, song, bark, etc.:

linguae volucrum,

Verg. A. 3, 361; 10, 177:

linguam praecludere (canis),

Phaedr. 1, 22, 5.—

An utterance, expression:

lingua secretior,

a dark saying, Quint. 1, 1, 35.—

Of tongue-shaped things.

A plant, also called lingulaca, Plin. 24, 19, 108, § 170.—

Lingua bubula, a plant, oxtongue, bugloss, Cato, R. R. 40; Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 112.—

Lingua canina, Cels. 5, 27, 18 init.;

and lingua canis,

App. Herb. 96, the plant hound's-tongue, also called cynoglossos; q. v.—

A tongue of land: id promontorium, Cujus lingua in altum proicit, Pac. ap. Gell. 4, 17 fin.:

lingua in altum mille passuum excurrens,

Liv. 37, 31, 9; Weissenb. ad Liv. 25, 15, 12:

eminet in altum lingua, in qua urbs sita est,

Liv. 44, 11:

tenuem producit in aequora linguam,

Luc. 2, 614; cf.: lingua dicitur promontorii genus non excellentis sed molliter in planum devexi, Paul. ex Fest. p. 121 Müll.—

A spoonful, as a measure, Plin. 26, 11, 73, § 119 (al. lingulis).—

The tongue or reed of a flute, Plin. 10, 29, 43, § 84.—

The short arm of a lever:

vectis lingua sub onus subdita,

Vitr. 10, 8 (cf. ligula, VII.).