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usus logo #20001Latin, meaning: use, experience, skill, advantage, profit.
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Usus logo #21000 Usus (from usus — usage; long-established rule, practice, custom) — widely accepted usage of linguistic units (words, idioms, forms). On one hand, it is set off occasional usage and, from the other hand, also language norm. Sometimes the term usus implies particular norms differing from literary norm (e.g. professional or social norms). Usus s...
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usus logo #21003(from the article `Roman law`) ...right to use and take the fruits (such as crops) of a thing and corresponded to the modern notion of life interest. A more restricted right, ...
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usus logo #21003(from the article `marriage law`) ...It was usually reserved for patrician families. Coemptio, used by many plebeians, was effectively marriage by purchase, while usus, the most ...
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usus logo #22993use, experience, skill, advantage.
Found on https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/frivs/latin/latin-dict-full.html
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