The story
- Proto-Italic · derived from*oissos
- Latin · borrowed fromūsus“use”
- English todayusus
Borrowed from Latin ūsus (“use”), from Proto-Italic *oissos.
Words from the same roots
Latinūsus all →
use
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
usus
Today it means: The use of something. Full definition →
Latin ūsus ← Proto-Italic *oissos