habitable
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Originally derived from the Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”).
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/
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AdjectiveEdit
habitable (comparative more habitable, superlative most habitable)
- Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
- After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.
- Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Feros Codex entry:
- Feros is a habitable world in the Attican Beta cluster. Two-thirds of the habitable surface is covered with the ruins of a crumbling Prothean megatropolis.
- Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.
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TranslationsEdit
where humans or other animals can live
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inhabited — see inhabited
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin habitābilis.
PronunciationEdit
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ə.biˈta.blə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.biˈta.ble/
- Homophone: evitable (Central)
AdjectiveEdit
habitable m or f (masculine and feminine plural habitables)
- habitable, inhabitable
- Antonym: inhabitable
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Further readingEdit
- “habitable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “habitable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “habitable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “habitable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin habitābilis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
habitable (plural habitables)
- habitable, inhabitable
- Antonym: inhabitable
Further readingEdit
- “habitable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin habitābilis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
habitable (plural habitables)
- habitable, inhabitable
- Antonym: inhabitable
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “habitable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014