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English

Etymology

From Latin cohabit?; co- + habit? (“I dwell, I live in”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko??hæb?t/
• Rhymes: -æb?t

Verb

cohabit (third-person singular simple present cohabits, present participle cohabiting, simple past and past participle cohabited)

1. (intransitive) To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
2. (intransitive) To coexist in common environs with.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in sexual intercourse; see coition.

Synonyms

• (to live together with someone else): cohabitate
• (to engage in sexual intercourse): fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Related terms

• cohabitation

Translations

Translations

English

Etymology

cohabit +? -er

Noun

cohabiter (plural cohabiters)

1. One who cohabits; a cohabitant.
   • 1628, Thomas Hobbes (translator), Thucydides (original in Greek), History of the Peloponnesian War

     neighbours and cohabiters of the same region, encompassed by the sea, and all called by one name, Sicilians.

References

cohabiter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Verb

cohabiter

1. to cohabit, to live together

Conjugation

Related terms

• cohabitation

Further reading

• “cohabiter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

cohabiter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cohabit?