custom
ADJECTIVE:
1. made specially for individual customers:
custom shoes.
2. dealing in things so made, or doing work to order:
a custom tailor.
3. made to the specifications of an individual customer (often in the combinations "custom-built," "custom-made").
4. specializing in goods so made.
5. made or performed according to personal order.
6. specializing in custom work or operation:
a custom tailor.
Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English custume<Anglo-French; Old French costume<Vulgar Latin *co(n)s(uē)tūmin-, replacing Latin consuētūdin- (stem of consuētūdō), equivalent to consuēt(us) accustomed, past participle of consuēscere (con-con- + suē- (akin to suus one's own) + -tus past participle suffix) + -ūdin- noun suffix; cf. costume. Dictionary 2: C12: from Old French costume, from Latin consuētūdō, from consuēscere to grow accustomed to, from suēscere to be used to. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of custom: Noun: 13th century. Adjective: 1757. History and Etymology for custom: Noun and Adjective: Middle English custume, from Anglo-French, from Latin consuetudin-, consuetudo, from consuescere to accustom, from com- + suescere to accustom; akin to suus one's own — more at suicide. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2, 3.
1. made specially for individual customers:
custom shoes.
2. dealing in things so made, or doing work to order:
a custom tailor.
3. made to the specifications of an individual customer (often in the combinations "custom-built," "custom-made").
4. specializing in goods so made.
5. made or performed according to personal order.
6. specializing in custom work or operation:
a custom tailor.
Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English custume<Anglo-French; Old French costume<Vulgar Latin *co(n)s(uē)tūmin-, replacing Latin consuētūdin- (stem of consuētūdō), equivalent to consuēt(us) accustomed, past participle of consuēscere (con-con- + suē- (akin to suus one's own) + -tus past participle suffix) + -ūdin- noun suffix; cf. costume. Dictionary 2: C12: from Old French costume, from Latin consuētūdō, from consuēscere to grow accustomed to, from suēscere to be used to. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of custom: Noun: 13th century. Adjective: 1757. History and Etymology for custom: Noun and Adjective: Middle English custume, from Anglo-French, from Latin consuetudin-, consuetudo, from consuescere to accustom, from com- + suescere to accustom; akin to suus one's own — more at suicide. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2, 3.