different between habitat vs milieu

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

Borrowed from French milieu.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m?l?ju/, /m?l?j?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?l.j??/, /m?l?j??/
• (from French) IPA^(key): /mi?ljø/

Noun

milieu (plural milieux or milieus)

1. A particular medium.
2. A social setting or environment.

Derived terms

• micromilieu

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French milieu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l?jø?/
• Hyphenation: mi?li?eu
• Rhymes: -ø?

Noun

milieu n (plural milieus, diminutive milieutje n)

1. environment
   • 2006, Hilde Greefs, Water Management, Communities, and Environment: The Low Countries in Comparative Perspective, C. 1000 - C. 1800, Academia Press, pages 195:

     Maar turfwinning had een onbedoeld gevolg voor het milieu: bodemdaling en -erosie waardoor het waterbeheer een problematisch karakter kreeg.

     But peat extraction had an unintended consequence for the environment: sinking and erosion of the soil which made water management problematic in character.

2. milieu

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: milieu

French

Etymology

Composed of mi- (“mid”) +? lieu (“place”); in Old French as meillieu, mileu, miliu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljø/

Noun

milieu m (plural milieux)

1. middle; center
2. setting; environment; surroundings
3. social circle; milieu

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch milieu, from French milieu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi?li.?u?]
• Hyphenation: mi?li?êu

Noun

miliêu (first-person possessive milieuku, second-person possessive milieumu, third-person possessive milieunya)

1. milieu, environment.

   Synonym: lingkungan

Further reading

• “milieu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French milieu.

Noun

milieu m (plural milieus)

1. milieu (a person’s social setting or environment)

Romanian

Etymology

From French milieu

Noun

milieu n (plural milieuri)

1. social origin
2. ornamental object made out of lace

Declension