# habitat
## 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: /ˈhæbɪtæt/, [ˈhæbɪtæʔ]
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

habitat (countable and uncountable, plural habitats)
* (uncountable, biology) Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
    This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area.
* (countable, biology) A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
* (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.
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* agrohabitat
* habitative
* habitat loss
* habitat pole
* interhabitat
* intrahabitat
* macrohabitat
* megahabitat
* mesohabitat
* microhabitat
* multihabitat
* nonhabitat
* palaeohabitat
* paleohabitat
* rabbitat
* subhabitat

#### Related terms

* habitable

#### Translations
### References

* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “habitat”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Tabitha

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

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

### Participle

habitat (feminine habitada, masculine plural habitats, feminine plural habitades)
* past participle of habitar

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

habitat c (plural habitats, diminutive habitatje n)
* habitat

#### Derived terms

* habitatfragmentatie
* habitatversnippering

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: habitat

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.bi.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -a
* Homophone: habitats

### Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)
* 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: /ha.bi.tat/

### Noun

habitat
* habitat

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /haˈbitat/ [haˈbi.t̪at̪̚]
* Rhymes: -itat
* Syllabification: ha‧bi‧tat

### Noun

habitat (plural habitat-habitat)
* habitat (a place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs)

#### Derived terms

* berhabitat (“inhabited”)

#### Related terms

* habituasi
* habitus

### 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
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈha.bi.tat/, [ˈhäbɪt̪ät̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa.bi.tat/, [ˈäːbit̪ät̪]

### Verb

habitat
* 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)
* 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)
* a habitat

### References

* “habitat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* hábitat

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin habitat.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.biˈta.t͡ʃi/, /a.biˈtat͡ʃ/, /ˈa.bi.tat/, /a.biˈta/
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.biˈta.t͡ʃi/, /a.biˈtat͡ʃ/, /ˈa.bi.tat/, /a.biˈta/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.biˈtat͡ʃ/, /a.biˈta.t͡ʃi/, /ˈa.bi.tat/, /a.biˈta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈa.bi.tɐt/ [ˈa.βi.tɐt], /ɐ.biˈta/ [ɐ.βiˈta]
* Rhymes: -tatʃi, -abitat, -ta
* Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧tat

### Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)
* (biology) habitat (natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives)
* (figuratively) place where an individual or group believes is ideal in and often frequents
    O teatro era o seu habitat natural.The theatre was his natural habitat.

### Further reading

* “habitat”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “habitat”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
* “habitat”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “habitat”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “habitat”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French habitat.

### Noun

habitat n (plural habitate)
* habitat

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xabǐtaːt/
* Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧tat

### Noun

habìtāt m (Cyrillic spelling хабѝта̄т)
* habitat

## Turkish
### Etymology

From French habitat.

### Noun

habitat (definite accusative habitatı, plural habitatlar)
* habitat

#### Synonyms

* yaşam alanı