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, floruit, ignoramus, and tenet from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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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 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.
   • 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.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• habitable

Translations

natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives

Arabic: مَوْطِن m (mawṭin) 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 Hindi: वास (hi) m (vās) Indonesian: habitat (id) Interlingua: habitat Italian: habitat (it) m Japanese: 生息地 (ja) (せいそくち, seisokuchi) Korean: 서식지(棲息地) (ko) (seosikji) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: jîngeh (ku) f Latvian: dzīvotne f Malay: habitat (ms) 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) Welsh: cynefin (cy) m

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 (2001–2025), “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

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

habitat

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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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/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• 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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

habitat (plural habitat-habitat)

1. 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^(key): [ˈha.bɪ.tat]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.bi.t̪at̪]

Verb

habitat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of habitō

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

habitat

Wikipedia ^no

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

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

habitat

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

habitat

Wikipedia ^pt

Alternative forms

• hábitat

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin habitat.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.biˈta.t͡ʃi/, /a.biˈtat͡ʃ/, /ˈa.bi.tat/, /a.biˈta/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.biˈta.t͡ʃi/, /a.biˈtat͡ʃ/, /ˈa.bi.tat/, /a.biˈta/
  • (Porto Alegre) IPA^(key): /a.biˈtat͡ʃ/, /a.biˈta.t͡ʃi/, /ˈa.bi.tat/, /a.biˈta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.bi.tɐ.tɨ/ [ˈa.βi.tɐ.tɨ], /ɐ.biˈta/ [ɐ.βiˈta]

• Rhymes: -atʃi, -abitat, -a
• 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

   O teatro era o seu habitat natural.

   The theatre was his natural habitat.

Further reading

• “habitat”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “habitat”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 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)

1. habitat

Declension

Declension of habitat

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	habitat	habitatul		habitate	habitatele
genitive-dative	habitat	habitatului		habitate	habitatelor
vocative	habitatule			habitatelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

habìtāt m inan (Cyrillic spelling хабѝта̄т)

1. habitat

Turkish

Etymology

From French habitat.

Noun

habitat (definite accusative habitatı, plural habitatlar)

1. habitat

Declension

Declension of habitat

	singular	plural
nominative	habitat	habitatlar
definite accusative	habitatı	habitatları
dative	habitata	habitatlara
locative	habitatta	habitatlarda
ablative	habitattan	habitatlardan
genitive	habitatın	habitatların

Synonyms

• yaşam alanı