habito Latin · revision 30786

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *gʰh₁bʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈha.bɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈaː.bi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''habitō''' (present infinitive habitāre, perfect active habitāvī, supine habitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Ovid has the genitive plural of the participle ''habitantum''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the frequentative of [[m|la|habeō|t=to have, hold]], formed with [[m|la|-itō]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|habeō]] to [[itc-pro|*χabē-|t=has taken, has]] and [[ine-pro|*gʰh₁bʰ-|t=to take]].^(de Vaan 2008) Clifford Weber, reported by Wiktionary, notes that the simple verb sometimes meant “to dwell” in early Latin.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who opens the ''Amphitruo'' with ''in superiōre quī habitō cēnāculō'', “I who live in the upper storey”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a frequentative it first meant “to have often”, and Varro uses it of wearing clothes or long hair habitually, a rare early sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The usual sense is “to live, dwell” (Plautus: ''hīc habitō''), with an object “to inhabit” (Virgil: ''humilēs habitāre casās'', “to live in humble cottages”), and with an adverb or a price “to be housed, lodge” (Cicero: he wanted to live in a large and splendid house).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) With exaggeration it is “to live” somewhere, to spend all one's time there (Cicero: ''habitābant in rōstrīs'', “they practically lived on the speakers' platform”), and figuratively “to linger”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Döderlein contrasts ''incolere'', to inhabit a country as its citizen, with ''habitāre'', to dwell in a house.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it “live, dwell, abide, inhabit”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''in superiōre quī habitō cēnāculō''.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of wearing long hair.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''habitābant in rōstrīs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil: ''humilēs habitāre casās''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To live, [[m|en|dwell]], reside.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|inhabit]], live in.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To be housed, lodge (in a certain way).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To spend all one's time (in a place); to linger.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(early Latin)'' To wear habitually.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cohabitō]]

+ * [[habitābilis]]

+ * [[habitāculum]]

+ * [[habitātiō]]

+ * [[habitātor]]

+ * [[habitātrīx]]

+ * [[inhabitō]]

+ * [[habitātiuncula]]

+ * [[habitūrium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[habeō]]

+ * [[habitus]]

+ * [[incolō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}