habitat

See also: Habitat, hábitat, hàbitat, and habitât

English

Etymology

From Latin habitātus (“having been inhabited”), from habitus (“having been held”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæbɪtæt/, [ˈhæbɪtæʔ]

Noun

habitat (countable and uncountable, plural habitats)

1. (uncountable, biology) Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.

   This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area.

2. (countable, biology) A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.
3. (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.

4. 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.

Related terms

• habitable

Translations

natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives

• Bulgarian: ареал m (areal), естествена среда f (estestvena sreda)
• Catalan: hàbitat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棲息地 (zh), 栖息地 (zh) (qīxīdì PRC, qīxídì Taiwan)

• Danish: levested n, habitat (da) n, udbredelsesområde n
• Dutch: leefgebied (nl), habitat (nl) n
• Finnish: elinympäristö (fi), elinpaikka, habitaatti (fi)
• French: habitat (fr) m
• Galician: hábitat m
• German: Habitat (de) n
• Haitian Creole: abita
• Indonesian: habitat (id)
• Interlingua: habitat
• Japanese: 生息地 (せいそくち, seisokuchi)
• Korean: 서식지 (ko) (seosikji) (棲息地)

• Latvian: dzīvotne f
• Malay: habitat
• Marathi: अधिवास (adhivās), प्राकृतिक वास (prākrutik vās)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: habitat n, levested n

  Nynorsk: habitat n

• Persian: زیستگاه‎ (fa) (zistgâh)
• Polish: siedlisko (pl)
• Portuguese: habitat (pt) m
• Romanian: habitat (ro)
• Russian: среда́ обита́ния f (sredá obitánija)
• Slovene: habitat (sl) m, življenjski prostor m
• Spanish: hábitat (es)
• Tagalog: tirahanan
• Turkish: habitat (tr)

References

• Etymonline

Anagrams

• Tabitha

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.biˈtat/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.biˈtat/
• Rhymes: -at

Verb

habitat m (feminine habitada, masculine plural habitats, feminine plural habitades)

1. past participle of habitar

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: habitats

Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)

1. habitat

Further reading

• “habitat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

habitat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of habitō

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin habitatus, from habitare

Noun

habitat n (definite singular habitatet, indefinite plural habitat or habitater, definite plural habitata or habitatene)

1. a habitat

References

• “habitat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin habitatus, from habitare

Noun

habitat n (definite singular habitatet, indefinite plural habitat, definite plural habitata)

1. a habitat

References

• “habitat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)

1. (biology) habitat (natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xabǐtaːt/
• Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧tat

Noun

habìtāt m (Cyrillic spelling хабѝта̄т)

1. habitat