obsolète

obsolète
(ob-so-lè-t') adj.
   Néologisme de quelques grammairiens. Qui est hors d'usage, en parlant d'un mot, d'une locution.
   Il se dit aussi en histoire naturelle, pour signifier peu apparent, presque effacé. Sillon obsolète. Strie obsolète.
   Lat. obsoletus, de obsolere, tomber en désuétude, de ob, et solere, avoir coutume (voy. souloir).

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