# wonted

Pronunciation: US say "WAWN-tid" /ˈwɔntɪd/; UK say "WOHN-tid" /ˈwəʊntɪd/

## Adjective

1. Usual for a particular person or thing, as a matter of habit or custom.
   - Simple: Normal and usual for someone or something, because it happens all the time.
   - _The senator answered the reporters with her wonted bluntness._
   - _By noon the square had regained its wonted bustle of traders and tourists._

## Origin

From Middle English woonted (“usual, customary”), from wont (“custom, habit, practice”), an alteration of wone, from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice; usual”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“custom, practice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). It is cognate with Old Frisian wona or wuna and Old High German giwona, both meaning “custom”.

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