habituate
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habituate
- /həˈbɪtju.eɪt/
- /həˈbɪt͡ʃu.eɪt/
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *haβēō
Latin habeō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin habitus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin habituō, habituātusbor.
Middle English habituateder.
English habituate
From Middle English habituat(e) (“physically established or present”) (borrowed from Late Latin habituātus, perfect passive participle of habituō (“to bring into a condition or habit of body”)). See -ate (verb-forming suffix).
verb habituates · habituating · habituated
- To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311, […] it was the custome of our English doggs (who were habituated vnto a colder clyme) to runne into the sea in the heate of summer […]
- To settle as an inhabitant. After the Conquests made by Caesar upon Gaul, and the nearer Parts of Germany […] great Numbers of Germans and Gauls resorted to the Roman Armies and to the City it self, and habituated themselves there, as many Spaniards, Syrians, Graecians had done before upon the Conquest of those Countries.
