different between habit vs habitude

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

Etymology

From Middle English habitude, from Middle French habitude, from Latin habit?d? (“condition, plight, habit, appearance”), from habe? (“I have, hold, keep”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæb??tju?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

habitude (countable and uncountable, plural habitudes)

1. (archaic) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint (114)

     His real habitude gave life and grace To appertainings and to ornament.

2. (archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature
   • 1683, John Dryden, Life of Plutarch (21)

     An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

     […] there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]

3. (obsolete) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.
   • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron (4.21)

     Proportion ... signifies the habitude or relation of one quantity to another.

4. (obsolete) In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
   • 1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England (1.165)

     Although I believe not the report in full habitude.

5. (obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.
   • 1665, John Evelyn, Memoirs (3.65)

     The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.

6. (obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
   • 1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode (4.1)

     La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had.

7. Habit; custom; usage.
   • 1599, James I of England, Basilikon Doron (28)

     Which ... by long habitude, are thought rather vertue than vice among them.

8. (obsolete) A chemical term used in the plural to denote the various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.
   • 1818, Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (32)

     Most authors who have had occasion to describe naphthaline, have noticed its habitudes with sulphuric acid.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “habitude”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

From Latin habit?d?.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.tyd/

Noun

habitude f (plural habitudes)

1. habit (action done on a regular basis)

Derived terms

• avoir habitude
• d'habitude
• par habitude

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

habitude (plural habitudes)

1. habit (action done on a regular basis)

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1365, borrowed from Latin habit?d?. The meaning 'habit' seems to have developed under the influence of habituer (“to habituate” reflexively “to become habituated”).

Noun

habitude f (plural habitudes)

1. relationship
2. habit (action done on a regular basis)

References