Etymology

routine

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Today it means: A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. Full definition →

Latin rupta via
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  1. Latin · derived fromrupta via
  2. English todayroutine

Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via. Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey). Also compare Czech běžný (< běžet), Russian обихо́д (obixód), обихо́дный (obixódnyj) (akin to ходи́ть (xodítʹ)).

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