habitat

habitat

See also: Habitat, hábitat, hàbitat, and habitât

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]

• Audio (RP)

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Noun

habitat (countable and uncountable, plural habitats)

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

   This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area.

2. (countable, biology) A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.
3. (countable, biology) A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
   • 2006, John Davenport, Julia L. Davenport, The Ecology of Transportation‎, page 248:

     rights-of-way are usually perceived as disturbance zones that provide a habitat and corridor for non-native species.

4. A place in which a person lives.
   • 2006 June, Jessica Houssian, “Hot List”, in Bazaar, number 3535, page 146:

     this book is just the impetus you need to clear the clutter and reorganize your habitat.

Related terms

• habitable

Translations

natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives

Bulgarian: ареал (bg) m (areal), естествена среда f (estestvena sreda) Catalan: hàbitat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 棲息地／栖息地 (zh) (qīxīdì PRC, qīxídì Taiwan) Danish: levested n, habitat (da) n, udbredelsesområde n Dutch: leefgebied (nl), habitat (nl) n Finnish: elinympäristö (fi), elinpaikka, habitaatti (fi) French: habitat (fr) m Galician: hábitat (gl) m Georgian: ჰაბიტატი (habiṭaṭi) German: Habitat (de) n, Lebensbedingungen (de) f pl Haitian Creole: abita Indonesian: habitat (id) Interlingua: habitat Italian: habitat (it) m Japanese: 生息地 (せいそくち, seisokuchi) Korean: 서식지(棲息地) (ko) (seosikji) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: jîngeh (ku) f Latvian: dzīvotne f Malay: habitat Marathi: अधिवास (adhivās), प्राकृतिक वास (prākrutik vās) Norwegian: Bokmål: habitat n, levested n Nynorsk: habitat n Persian: زیستگاه‎ (fa) (zistgâh) Polish: siedlisko (pl) Portuguese: habitat (pt) m Romanian: habitat (ro) Russian: среда́ обита́ния f (sredá obitánija) Slovene: habitat (sl) m, življenjski prostor m Spanish: hábitat (es) Tagalog: tirahanan Turkish: habitat (tr)

type of site where an organism naturally occurs

German: natürlicher Lebensraum, Standort (de) m (plants), Heimat (de) f (poetic)

area distinguished by special natural features

German: Biotop (de) m or n, Lebensraum (de) m, Biotopteil m, Teilhabitat n, Teillebensraum m

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “habitat”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Tabitha

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.biˈtat/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.biˈtat/
• Rhymes: -at

Verb

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

1. past participle of habitar

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

• 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.

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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

• berhabitat

 

• habitat kering
• habitat satwa

 

Related terms

• habituasi
• habitus

 

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

habitat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of habitō

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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.

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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.

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Portuguese

Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)

1. (biology) habitat (natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French habitat.

Noun

habitat n (plural habitate)

1. habitat

Declension

Declension of habitat

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) habitat	habitatul	(niște) habitate	habitatele
genitive/dative	(unui) habitat	habitatului	(unor) habitate	habitatelor
vocative	habitatule		habitatelor

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

habìtāt m (Cyrillic spelling хабѝта̄т)

1. habitat

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Turkish

Etymology

From French habitat.

Noun

habitat (definite accusative habitatı, plural habitatlar)

1. habitat

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	habitat
Definite accusative	habitatı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	habitat	habitatlar
Definite accusative	habitatı	habitatları
Dative	habitata	habitatlara
Locative	habitatta	habitatlarda
Ablative	habitattan	habitatlardan
Genitive	habitatın	habitatların

Synonyms

• yaşam alanı