different between habit vs vestment

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 vestement, vestment, from Old French vestement (compare French vêtement), from Latin vest?mentum. Surface analysis vest +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?stm?nt/

Noun

vestment (plural vestments)

1. A robe, gown, or other article of clothing worn as an indication of office.
2. Any of the special articles of clothing worn by members of the clergy etc., especially a garment worn at the celebration of the Eucharist.
3. (in the plural) Clothing.
4. (archaic) An article of clothing, especially an outer garment.

Related terms

• invest
• vest
• vestibule
• vesture

Translations

References

• vestment at OneLook Dictionary Search
• vestment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.