habitat

English

Etymology

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

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

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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 range; A place where a species 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, 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.

Derived terms

• habitat pole

Related terms

• habitable

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “habitat”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Tabitha

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Rhymes: -at

Participle

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

1. past participle of habitar

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

habitat

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Internationalism, from Latin habitat (“it lives”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

habitat c (plural habitats, diminutive habitatje n)

1. habitat

Derived terms

• habitatfragmentatie
• habitatversnippering

Descendants

• → Indonesian: habitat

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.ta/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: habitats

Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)

1. habitat

Descendants

• → Romanian: habitat
• → Turkish: habitat

Further reading

• “habitat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English habitat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha.bi.tat/

Noun

habitat

1. habitat

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

habitat

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈbitat̚/
• Rhymes: -tat, -at, -t
• Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧tat

Noun

habitat (plural habitat-habitat, first-person possessive habitatku, second-person possessive habitatmu, third-person possessive habitatnya)

1. habitat:
   1. A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.
   2. A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
   3. A place in which a person lives.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “habitat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Verb

habitat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of habitō

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

habitat

Wikipedia ^no

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

habitat

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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.

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

habitat

Wikipedia ^pt

Alternative forms

• hábitat

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin habitat.

Pronunciation

Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French habitat.

Noun

habitat n (plural habitate)

1. habitat

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

habìtāt m (Cyrillic spelling хабѝта̄т)

1. habitat

Turkish

Etymology

From French habitat.

Noun

habitat (definite accusative habitatı, plural habitatlar)

1. habitat

Declension

Synonyms

• yaşam alanı