habitat

English Online Dictionary. What means habitat‎? What does habitat mean?

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæbɪtæt/, [ˈhæbɪtæʔ]

Noun

habitat (countable and uncountable, plural habitats)

1. (uncountable, biology) Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.

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.
4. A place in which a person lives.

Derived terms

• habitat pole

Related terms

• habitable

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “habitat”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Tabitha

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βiˈtat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.biˈtat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.biˈtat]
• Rhymes: -at

Participle

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

1. past participle of habitar

Dutch

Etymology

Internationalism, from Latin habitat (“it lives”).

Pronunciation

Noun

habitat c (plural habitats, diminutive habitatje n)

1. habitat

Derived terms

• habitatfragmentatie
• habitatversnippering

Descendants

• → Indonesian: habitat

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.ta/
• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: habitats

Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)

1. habitat

Descendants

• → Romanian: habitat
• → Turkish: habitat

Further reading

• “habitat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English habitat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha.bi.tat/

Noun

habitat

1. habitat

Indonesian

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈbitat̚/
• Rhymes: -tat, -at, -t
• Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧tat

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “habitat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Verb

habitat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of habitō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin habitatus, from habitare.

Noun

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

1. a habitat

References

• “habitat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin habitatus, from habitare.

Noun

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

1. a habitat

References

• “habitat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• hábitat

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin habitat.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -tatʃi, -abitat, -ta
• Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧tat

Noun

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

Further reading

• “habitat”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “habitat”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
• “habitat”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “habitat”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “habitat”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French habitat.

Noun

habitat n (plural habitate)

1. habitat

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

habìtāt m (Cyrillic spelling хабѝта̄т)

1. habitat

Turkish

Etymology

From French habitat.

Noun

habitat (definite accusative habitatı, plural habitatlar)

1. habitat

Declension

Synonyms

• yaşam alanı