inhabitant
English
Alternative forms
- enhabitant (archaic)
Etymology
From Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitans, present participle of inhabito (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habitō (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habeō (“to hold”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“seize, take, hold, have”).
Pronunciation
Noun
inhabitant (plural inhabitants)
Related terms
Translations
Someone or thing who lives in a place
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Adjective
inhabitant (not comparable)
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) inhabitant
Old French
Noun
inhabitant oblique singular, m (oblique plural inhabitanz or inhabitantz, nominative singular inhabitanz or inhabitantz, nominative plural inhabitant)
Descendants
- → English: inhabitant
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (inhabitant)
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