different between habitat vs refugium

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 Latin refugium. Doublet of refuge.

Noun

refugium (plural refugia or refugiums)

1. Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
2. (aquaculture) A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc.

Derived terms

• refugial
• microrefugium

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From re- (“back, again”) + fugi? (“flee”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re?fu.?i.um/, [r??f??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re?fu.d??i.um/, [r??fu?d??ium]

Noun

refugium n (genitive refugi? or refug?); second declension

1. refuge

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

• refugium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• refugium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• refugium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• refugium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• refugium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin refugium

Noun

refugium n (definite singular refugiet, indefinite plural refugier, definite plural refugia or refugiene)

1. (biology, ecology) a refugium (area where an organism can survive unfavourable conditions)

References

• “refugium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).