habitat

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English

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Etymology

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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.

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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[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.

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Catalan

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Participle

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

  1. past participle of habitar

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

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Internationalism, from Latin habitat (it lives).

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Noun

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habitat c (plural habitats, diminutive habitatje n)

  1. habitat

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: habitat

French

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habitat m (plural habitats)

  1. habitat

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Iban

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Borrowed from English habitat.

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habitat

  1. habitat

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Etymology

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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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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.

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Latin

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Verb

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habitat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of habitō

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

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From Latin habitatus, from habitare.

Noun

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

  1. a habitat

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

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From Latin habitatus, from habitare.

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

  1. a habitat

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin habitat.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.biˈta.t͡ʃi/, /a.biˈtat͡ʃ/, /ˈa.bi.tat/, /a.biˈta/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.biˈtat͡ʃ/, /a.biˈta.t͡ʃi/, /ˈa.bi.tat/, /a.biˈta/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈa.bi.tɐt/ [ˈa.βi.tɐt], /ɐ.biˈta/ [ɐ.βiˈta]

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habitat m (plural habitats)

  1. (biology) habitat (natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives)
  2. (figuratively) place where an individual or group believes is ideal in and often frequents
    O teatro era o seu habitat natural.
    The theatre was his natural habitat.

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Romanian

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Borrowed from French habitat.

Noun

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habitat n (plural habitate)

  1. habitat

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Serbo-Croatian

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

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habìtāt m (Cyrillic spelling хабѝта̄т)

  1. habitat

Turkish

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Etymology

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From French habitat.

Noun

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habitat (definite accusative habitatı, plural habitatlar)

  1. habitat

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Inflection
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

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