Inveterate is an adjective meaning firmly established by long habit or practice, or habitual.
Inveterate es un adjetivo que significa firmemente establecido o habitual.
| Front | inveterate \in-VET-uh-rut\ |
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| Back | adjective Firmly established; habitual. [From Middle English, from Latin inveteratus, past participle of inveterare (to grow old), in-, + vetus, stem of veter- (old). Ultimately from Indo-European root wet- (year) that is also the source of such words as veteran, veal (in the sense of yearling), and veterinary (relating to the beasts of burden, perhaps alluding to old cattle).] "Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd." - John Dryden; Threnodia Augustalis; 1685. |
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