different between habitat vs heathland

English

Etymology

From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habit? (“I live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit and ignoramus from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæb?tæt/, [?hæb?tæ?]

Noun

habitat (countable and uncountable, plural habitats)

1. (uncountable, biology) Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.

2. (countable, biology) A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.
3. (countable, biology) A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
4. A place in which a person lives.

Related terms

• habitable

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “habitat”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Tabitha

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?.bi?tat/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.bi?tat/
• Rhymes: -at

Verb

habitat m (feminine habitada, masculine plural habitats, feminine plural habitades)

1. past participle of habitar

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.ta/
• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: habitats

Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)

1. habitat

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

habitat

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin habitatus, from habitare

Noun

habitat n (definite singular habitatet, indefinite plural habitat or habitater, definite plural habitata or habitatene)

1. a habitat

References

• “habitat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin habitatus, from habitare

Noun

habitat n (definite singular habitatet, indefinite plural habitat, definite plural habitata)

1. a habitat

References

• “habitat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

habitat m (plural habitats)

1. (biology) habitat (natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives)

Romanian

Etymology

From French habitat.

Noun

habitat n (plural habitate)

1. habitat

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xab?ta?t/
• Hyphenation: ha?bi?tat

Noun

habìt?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. habitat

English

Etymology

From heath +? land. Compare Saterland Frisian Heedelound (“heathland”).

Noun

heathland (countable and uncountable, plural heathlands)

1. A tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, found on mainly infertile acidic soils. Similar to moorland but with warmer and drier climate.

Synonyms

• heath

Translations