different between habitant vs dwell

English

Etymology

From Old French habitant

Noun

habitant (plural habitants)

1. (Canada) a member of habitation colony at Stadacona founded by Samuel de Champlain, where Quebec City now lies
2. (archaic) Inhabitant, dweller.
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     Myriads of habitants are ever sleeping,

     Or dead, or fled from nameless pestilence!

Catalan

Noun

habitant m (plural habitants)

1. inhabitant

Verb

habitant

1. present participle of habitar

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.t??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: habitants

Verb

habitant

1. present participle of habiter

Noun

habitant m (plural habitants)

1. An inhabitant of some place.
2. (Quebec, derogatory) Someone who has a poor understanding of social conventions, making them look backward.
3. (Quebec, dated or derogatory) Anybody from a rural or recently colonized area.
4. (Canada, historical) A member of the habitation colony at Stadacona founded by Samuel de Champlain, where Quebec City now lies.
5. (Quebec, colloquial) Montreal Canadiens hockey club or supporter of Montreal Canadiens hockey club.
6. (Louisiana) A farmer.

Synonyms

• (farmer): agriculteur m; (dated) fermier

Usage notes

• Although the term originates as legitimate to describe early French colonists and French Canadian farmers, it has now taken a strong pejorative aspect in Quebec French, and using it without an explicit location would be perceived as pejorative.

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

habitant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of habit?

Middle French

Noun

habitant m (plural habitans)

1. inhabitant; dweller

Descendants

• French: habitant

English

Etymology

From Middle English dwellen (“delay, hinder, detain; linger, remain”), from Old English dwellan (“to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”), from Proto-Germanic *dwaljan? (“to hold up, delay; hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?welH- (“to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”), which is cognate with Old Norse dvelja and related to Proto-Germanic *dwelan? (“to go astray”), which underwent semantic change in its descendants. Cognates include Danish dvæle (“to linger, dwell”) and Swedish dväljas (“to dwell, reside”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dw?l, IPA^(key): /dw?l/

• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

dwell (plural dwells)

1. (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
2. (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
3. (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
4. (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).

Verb

dwell (third-person singular simple present dwells, present participle dwelling, simple past and past participle dwelt or (mostly US) dwelled)

1. (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman

     I am fully resolved to go dwell in another house.

   • 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the English Language

     The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides.

2. (intransitive) To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on).
3. (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
4. (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
   • 1802, William Wordsworth, Milton!-

     Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.

Synonyms

• (live, reside): See also Thesaurus:reside

Derived terms

• bedwell
• indwell

Related terms

• dwelling
• dwell on, dwell upon

Translations

See also

• abide
• live
• reside
• stay

References

• dwell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• dwell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Maltese

Etymology

From Italian duello, from Latin duellum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dw?ll/

Noun

dwell m (plural dwellijiet or dwelli)

1. duel

Derived terms

• ddwella