habitus
English
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Etymology
From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habeō (“have; maintain”).
Noun
habitus
- (zoology) habitude; mode of life; bearing, general appearance.
- (botany) habit; general shape and appearance of a species or variety of plant.
- (sociology) The lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.
- (liturgy) The liturgical clothing of monks, nuns and the clerical community, metaphorically referring to the religious mode of life.
Translations
habitude
References
- “habitus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habeō (“have; maintain”).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧tus
Noun
habitus m (plural habitussen)
- manner, behaviour
- general physical appearance such as shape of the body
- (zoology) general appearance and/or behaviour of a plant
Finnish
Noun
habitus
Declension
Inflection of habitus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | habitus | habitukset | ||
genitive | habituksen | habitusten habituksien | ||
partitive | habitusta | habituksia | ||
illative | habitukseen | habituksiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | habitus | habitukset | ||
accusative | nom. | habitus | habitukset | |
gen. | habituksen | |||
genitive | habituksen | habitusten habituksien | ||
partitive | habitusta | habituksia | ||
inessive | habituksessa | habituksissa | ||
elative | habituksesta | habituksista | ||
illative | habitukseen | habituksiin | ||
adessive | habituksella | habituksilla | ||
ablative | habitukselta | habituksilta | ||
allative | habitukselle | habituksille | ||
essive | habituksena | habituksina | ||
translative | habitukseksi | habituksiksi | ||
abessive | habituksetta | habituksitta | ||
instructive | — | habituksin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of habeō (“have”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈha.bi.tus/, [ˈhäbɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.bi.tus/, [ˈäːbit̪us]
Participle
habitus (feminine habita, neuter habitum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | habitus | habita | habitum | habitī | habitae | habita | |
Genitive | habitī | habitae | habitī | habitōrum | habitārum | habitōrum | |
Dative | habitō | habitō | habitīs | ||||
Accusative | habitum | habitam | habitum | habitōs | habitās | habita | |
Ablative | habitō | habitā | habitō | habitīs | |||
Vocative | habite | habita | habitum | habitī | habitae | habita |
Etymology 2
From habeō (I have) + -tus (noun formation suffix)
Noun
habitus m (genitive habitūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | habitus | habitūs |
Genitive | habitūs | habituum |
Dative | habituī | habitibus |
Accusative | habitum | habitūs |
Ablative | habitū | habitibus |
Vocative | habitus | habitūs |
Descendants
- Italian: abito(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in abito#Italian)
- Lombard: abet
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: hábitu
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: hàbit
- Old Galician-Portuguese: abito
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: hábito
- Sardinian: àpidu, àpitu, àpiu
- → Dutch: habitus
- → English: habitus
- → Finnish: habitus
- → German: Habit, Habitus
- → Middle English: habit
- English: habit
- → Old French: abit, habit
- → Old Irish: aibit
- → Polish: habit
- → Bulgarian: хабитус (habitus)
- → Russian: га́битус (gábitus)
- → Ukrainian: габітус (habitus)
References
- “habitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “habitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- habitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- humour; disposition: animi affectio or habitus (De Inv. 2. 5)
- humour; disposition: animi affectio or habitus (De Inv. 2. 5)
Categories:
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals
- en:Zoology
- en:Botany
- en:Sociology
- Dutch terms derived from Latin
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- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch masculine nouns
- nl:Zoology
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish vastaus-type nominals
- Latin 3-syllable words
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- Latin first and second declension participles
- Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook