different between habit vs guise

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)

1. An action performed on a regular basis.

   Synonym: wont

   • a man of very shy, retired habits

2. An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.

3. A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.

4. A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.

5. (archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.
   • There are, among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits.
6. (botany, mineralogy) Form of growth or general appearance of a variety or species of plant or crystal.
7. 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)

1. (transitive) To clothe.
2. (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)

1. I surprise
2. I astonish
3. (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)

1. 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)

1. Alternative form of abit

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.b?it/

Noun

habit m inan

1. habit (clothing worn by monks and nuns)

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z
• Homophone: guys

Etymology 1

From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *w?sa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *w?s? (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German w?sa (“way, manner”), Old English w?se (“wise, way, fashion, custom, habit, manner”), Dutch wijze (“manner, way”). More at wise.

Noun

guise (plural guises)

1. Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)
   • 1924, Aristotle. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 1, Part 5.

     dialecticians and sophists assume the same guise as the philosopher

2. External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
3. Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.

   Under the guise of patriotism

   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[1]

     Ought we be concerned that our rights to protest are being continually eroded under the guise of enhancing our safety?

Synonyms

• (customary way of acting): See Thesaurus:conduct
• (external appearance): See Thesaurus:guise

Related terms

• disguise

Translations

Verb

guise (third-person singular simple present guises, present participle guising, simple past and past participle guised)

1. (archaic, transitive) To dress.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To act as a guiser; to go dressed up in a parade etc.

Etymology 2

Noun

guise pl (plural only)

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of guys.

   Sup guise? — What's up, guys?

Anagrams

• Segui, egusi

French

Etymology

From Middle French guise, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *w?sa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *w?s? (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German w?sa (“way, manner”), Old English w?se (“wise, way, fashion, custom, habit, manner”). More at wise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?iz/

Noun

guise f (plural guises)

1. way

   le faire à ma guise — do it my way

   Je l'ai laissé chanter à sa guise. — I let him sing his way.

   en guise de — by way of, as

Derived terms

• en guise de

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

guise f

1. plural of guisa

Anagrams

• segui, seguì

Old French

Noun

guise f (oblique plural guises, nominative singular guise, nominative plural guises)

1. way; manner

Descendants

• English: guise
• French: guise

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (guise, supplement)

Spanish

Verb

guise

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of guisar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of guisar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of guisar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of guisar.