habitat
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“I live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit and ignoramus from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhæbɪtæt/, [ˈhæbɪtæʔ]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun edit
habitat (countable and uncountable, plural habitats)
- (uncountable, biology) Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
- This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area.
- (countable, biology) A range; A place where a species naturally occurs.
- (countable, biology) A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
- 2006, John Davenport, Julia L. Davenport, The Ecology of Transportation[1], page 248:
- rights-of-way are usually perceived as disturbance zones that provide a habitat and corridor for non-native species.
- A place in which a person lives.
- 2006 June, Jessica Houssian, “Hot List”, in Bazaar, number 3535, page 146:
- this book is just the impetus you need to clear the clutter and reorganize your habitat.
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References edit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “habitat”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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Participle edit
habitat (feminine habitada, masculine plural habitats, feminine plural habitades)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism, from Latin habitat (“it lives”).
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Audio (file)
Noun edit
habitat c (plural habitats, diminutive habitatje n)
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Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: habitat
French edit
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habitat m (plural habitats)
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Further reading edit
- “habitat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Iban edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English habitat.
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habitat
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch habitat, from Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“I live or dwell”).
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Noun edit
habitat (plural habitat-habitat, first-person possessive habitatku, second-person possessive habitatmu, third-person possessive habitatnya)
- habitat:
- A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.
- A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
- A place in which a person lives.
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Further reading edit
- “habitat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
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habitat
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin habitatus, from habitare.
Noun edit
habitat n (definite singular habitatet, indefinite plural habitat or habitater, definite plural habitata or habitatene)
- a habitat
References edit
- “habitat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin habitatus, from habitare.
Noun edit
habitat n (definite singular habitatet, indefinite plural habitat, definite plural habitata)
- a habitat
References edit
- “habitat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
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habitat m (plural habitats)
Romanian edit
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habitat n (plural habitate)
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singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) habitat | habitatul | (niște) habitate | habitatele |
genitive/dative | (unui) habitat | habitatului | (unor) habitate | habitatelor |
vocative | habitatule | habitatelor |
Serbo-Croatian edit
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habìtāt m (Cyrillic spelling хабѝта̄т)
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habitat (definite accusative habitatı, plural habitatlar)
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Inflection | ||
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Nominative | habitat | |
Definite accusative | habitatı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | habitat | habitatlar |
Definite accusative | habitatı | habitatları |
Dative | habitata | habitatlara |
Locative | habitatta | habitatlarda |
Ablative | habitattan | habitatlardan |
Genitive | habitatın | habitatların |