habitable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally derived from the Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]habitable (comparative more habitable, superlative most habitable)
- Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
- After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.
- Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Feros Codex entry:
- Feros is a habitable world in the Attican Beta cluster. Two-thirds of the habitable surface is covered with the ruins of a crumbling Prothean megatropolis.
- Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]where humans or other animals can live
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inhabited — see inhabited
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin habitābilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [ə.βiˈtab.blə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ə.biˈtab.blə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [a.biˈta.ble]
- Homophone: evitable (Central)
Adjective
[edit]habitable m or f (masculine and feminine plural habitables)
- habitable, inhabitable
- Antonym: inhabitable
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “habitable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “habitable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “habitable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “habitable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin habitābilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]habitable (plural habitables)
- habitable, inhabitable
- Antonym: inhabitable
Further reading
[edit]- “habitable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin habitābilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]habitable m or f (masculine and feminine plural habitables)
- habitable, inhabitable
- Antonym: inhabitable
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “habitable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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