#custom

• Habitual / Customary — A quality designating a fact, behavior, or action that has become a constant habit, an established custom, or a regularly repeated routine; habitual, customary, ingrained. In early philosophical contexts, it qualifies a permanent internal disposition of the mind.
• Habit / Habitude — A learned, rare, or obsolete variant of the noun 'habitudine', denoting a constant habit, a deeply ingrained custom, or a routine formed through frequent repetition, which creates an automatic facility or tendency in performing certain actions.
• Subscriber — A person or entity that holds a subscription based on a contract to regularly receive a service (publications, telecommunications, transport); (adjectival) registered for a periodic service or frequently visiting a specific place.
• Subscriber — A female person or a registered entity holding a subscription based on a contract to regularly receive a service; (adjectival) registered for a periodic service or frequently visiting a specific place.
• Ancient custom — An old legal and social form designating a custom of the land, a traditional custom, an unwritten norm, or a habit with the force of law within a historical community; a structural variant related to the term 'acotomanță' or 'cutumă'. This word reflects the archaic legal organization in the Romanian Principalities, where administrative decisions relied on long-established local traditions.
• Deal-sealing drink — A traditional Romanian custom consisting of offering a treat (usually drink or food) by the buyer to the seller and witnesses, to seal and celebrate the conclusion of a commercial transaction (especially the sale of animals or land); the drink offered on this occasion. This structural ritual holds a symbolic value of socially confirming the deal, marking the binding nature of the unwritten contract.
• Adat — A term used in legal anthropology and the history of religions to designate the body of customary laws, traditional practices, and unwritten norms regulating the social, family, and administrative life of Muslim communities (especially in Southeast Asia, such as Indonesia and Malaysia). This traditional legal system often coexists structurally with Islamic law (Sharia) and modern state legislation.
• Customary tax — An archaic and regional variant of the term 'adet' or 'adetiu'; it represents an old custom, fiscal tradition, or administrative practice under which specific duties, administrative taxes, or customs fees were collected in the Romanian Principalities during the Ottoman influence. In certain regions like Oltenia, it also defined a traditional form of tithe collected by the owner of a distillery from those using the still.
• Custom — A custom, tradition, long-standing habit, or customary norm rooted in the social life of the Romanian Principalities, introduced during the period of Ottoman influence; in an old administrative sense, it also designated a traditional tax or tribute paid according to the custom of the land. This structural term reflects a mode of legal and cultural organization based on unwritten laws, strictly respected by rural feudal society.
• Adetiu — An archaic legal and administrative term designating an old customs duty, an extra tax, or a tribute applied to transit goods or livestock transactions in the fairs of the Romanian Principalities. As an adjective, it describes a property or a structural fiscal obligation stemming from an old local custom or an unwritten law, being closely linked to feudal economic regulations.
• Customary tribute — An archaic legal or administrative term designating a fiscal obligation, a traditional tax, a tribute, or a local custom that had to be paid periodically to feudal or ecclesiastical authorities; as an adjective, it describes an act, a behavior, or a tax that complies with the tradition or local custom (adet). This structural term reflects the customary norms of administrative organization in the Romanian Principalities.
• Airbrushing — An artistic technique of painting or decoration based on using the airbrush, through which images are created by the controlled spraying of paint onto various surfaces (canvas, car bodies, walls, skin). It allows obtaining superior photorealistic effects and extremely smooth transitions between hues.
• Folk divination — A popular articulated regional variant of 'aflatul', used in Romanian villages to designate a divination ritual, magical custom, or traditional practice of predicting the future. Performed during sacred nights, it was used by young girls to discover their future husband.
• Agod — A regional noun (mainly used in Transylvania and Maramureș) designating the habit, character, or disposition of a person or an animal. Secondarily, it refers to the proper order, arrangement, or systematic internal structure of an object or traditional event.
• To arrange orderly — A rare regional verb form used in isolated Transylvanian dialects, derived from the noun agod; it means to systematically arrange or set things in proper order around a household, or to accustom an animal to a specific working habit.
• Agodire — The act of arranging or setting things in order, and its result; the systematic placement of tools or chores within a rural homestead. In traditional ethnography, it also designates the gradual process of training or accustoming a draft animal to specific working habits.
• Ho there — A traditional interjection used as a ritualistic opening and rhythmic formula in the Plugușor, a Romanian New Year's carol. This onomatopoeic phonetic structure, usually repeated as 'aho, aho', mimics the shouting used to urge oxen while plowing and structurally serves to capture the hosts' attention, marking the pauses between the stanzas of the folk greeting.
• Holy water — A regional and popular phonetic variant (found predominantly in Moldavian and Transylvanian dialects) for the word agheasmă; water blessed by a priest during Christian rituals or services (such as the Epiphany). This ritualistic water is structurally invested by believers with healing, purifying, and evil-spirit-expelling properties, kept in homes as a sacred object.
• Ainu — A member of an indigenous Paleo-Siberian population from the Japanese archipelago, historically located on Hokkaido Island, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands, structurally characterized by physical and anthropological traits distinct from the majority Japanese population, and by an ancestral culture deeply tied to the veneration of nature and animal spirits. As an adjective, it describes the cultural elements, religious traditions, tribal social organization, or the isolated linguistic system specific to this unique ethnic community.
• Eve — The day or time interval immediately preceding an important event, a religious holiday, or a memorable date; a period of spiritual or administrative preparation before a solemn moment. In Christian tradition, the term specifically designates the days before major feasts (Christmas, Epiphany), often associated with strict fasting and specific folkloric customs.