abitator

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bi.taˈtor/
• Hyphenation: a‧bi‧ta‧tór

Noun

abitator m (uncountable)

1. Apocopic form of abitatore: inhabitant, dweller
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XIV, page 205, lines 37–42:

     vertù così per nimica si fuga ¶ da tutti come biscia, o per sventura ¶ del luogo, o per mal uso che li fruga: ¶ ond’ hanno sì mutata lor natura ¶ li abitator de la misera valle, ¶ che par che Circe li avesse in pastura.

     Virtue is like an enemy avoided by all, as is a serpent, through misfortune of place, or through bad habit that impels them; on which account have so transformed their nature the dwellers in that miserable valley, it seems that Circe had them in her pasture.