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rumpere
Latin · ancient
"to break"
the verb 'to break', applied to a road broken or cut through a forest
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route
French · 1100s
"a way, path, course"
from rupta (via), literally '(a road) broken open'
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routine
French · 1500s
"a customary, mechanical course of action"
route plus the suffix -ine, coined for a habitual, well-worn course of action
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routine
English · 1670s
"a fixed, regular way of doing things"
adopted for any fixed, habitual way of doing things
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