different between habit vs character
habit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hæb?t/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?hæb?t/
- Rhymes: -æb?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English habit, from Latin habitus (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habe? (“I have, hold, keep”). Replaced Middle English abit, from Old French abit, itself from the same Latin source. Displaced native Old English þ?aw.
Noun
habit (countable and uncountable, plural habits)
- An action performed on a regular basis.
- Synonym: wont
- a man of very shy, retired habits
- An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
- A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
- A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.
- (archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.
- There are, among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits.
- (botany, mineralogy) Form of growth or general appearance of a variety or species of plant or crystal.
- An addiction.
Related terms
- exhibit
- habitual
- habituate
- habitus
- inhibit
- prohibit
Derived terms
- eating habit
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English habiten, from Old French habiter, from Latin habit?re, present active infinitive of habit? (“I dwell, abide, keep”), frequentative of habe? (“I have, hold, keep”); see have.
Verb
habit (third-person singular simple present habits, present participle habiting, simple past and past participle habited)
- (transitive) To clothe.
- (transitive, archaic) To inhabit.
Related terms
- habitat
- habitation
Translations
Further reading
- habit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- habit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Ba'thi
Albanian
Etymology
According to Orel, borrowed from a South Slavic language and ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *xabiti (“to spoil, to waste”). Compare Old Church Slavonic ?????? (xabiti), Serbo-Croatian habiti (“damage, destroy”), and Bulgarian ???? (habja, “destroy, spend; blunt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha?bit/
Verb
habit (first-person singular past tense habita, participle habitur)
- I surprise
- I astonish
- (Gheg; northern Albania and Kosovo) I distract, confuse
Derived terms
- habi
- habitshëm
- habitur
- habitje
- habitore
References
French
Etymology
From Old French habit, abit, borrowed from Latin habitus.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /a.bi/
Noun
habit m (plural habits)
- article of clothing, garment, dress-coat, evening dress, tails, full dress
Derived terms
- l'habit ne fait pas le moine
Related terms
- habiller
- habillement
Descendants
- ? German: Habit
Further reading
- “habit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
habit m (oblique plural habiz or habitz, nominative singular habiz or habitz, nominative plural habit)
- Alternative form of abit
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xa.b?it/
Noun
habit m inan
- habit (clothing worn by monks and nuns)
Declension
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character
English
Etymology
From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “type, nature, character”), from ??????? (kharáss?, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k??(?)kt?/, /?kæ?(?)kt?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæ??kt?/
- Hyphenation: char?ac?ter
Noun
character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)
- (countable) A being involved in the action of a story.
- (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
- (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
- A man of […] thoroughly subservient character
- (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
- (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
- (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- (countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
- (countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
- (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
- (countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
- (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
- (countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
- This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.
- (countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
- (countable, obsolete) Personal appearance.
Usage notes
Character is sometimes used interchangeably with reputation, but the two words have different meanings; character describes the distinctive qualities of an individual or group while reputation describes the opinions held by others regarding an individual or group. Character is internal and authentic, while reputation is external and perceived.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Pages starting with “character”.
Translations
Verb
character (third-person singular simple present characters, present participle charactering, simple past and past participle charactered)
- (obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.
See also
- codepoint
- font
- glyph
- letter
- symbol
- rune
- pictogram
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /k?a?rak.ter/, [k?ä??äkt??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka?rak.ter/, [k????kt??r]
Noun
character m (genitive charact?ris); third declension
- branding iron
- brand (made by a branding iron)
- characteristic, mark, character, style
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Hungarian: karakter
- Galician: caritel; ? carácter
- Irish: carachtar
- Italian: carattere
- Old French: caractere
- ? English: character
- French: caractère
- Polish: charakter
- ? Russian: ????????? (xarákter)
- Portuguese: caractere, carácter
- Sicilian: caràttiri
- Spanish: carácter
References
- character in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- character in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- character in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Portuguese
Noun
character m (plural characteres)
- Obsolete spelling of caráter (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).
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