- routine
- routine: see rut
- routine (n.)
- 1670s, from French routine "usual course of action, beaten path" (16c.), from route "way, path, course" (see route (n.)) + noun suffix -ine (see -ine (1)). Theatrical or athletic performance sense is from 1926. The adjective is attested from 1817, from the noun. Related: Routinely.
- routinization (n.)
- 1916, noun of action from routinize (1893), from routine + -ize.