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habitual
English
Etymology
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English habitual (“of one's inherent disposition”), from Medieval Latin habitu?lis (“customary; habitual”), from Latin habitus (“character; disposition; habit; physical or emotional condition; attire, dress”) + -?lis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); analysable as habit +? -ual. Habitus is derived from habe? (“to have; to hold; to own; to possess”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?eh?b?- (“to grab, take”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??b?.t??.?l/, /h??b?.t?w?l/, /-tj?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h??b?.t??.?l/, /h??b?.t?(w)?l/
- Hyphenation: ha?bit?u?al, ha?bit?ual
Adjective
habitual (comparative more habitual, superlative most habitual)
- Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
- Regular or usual.
- Synonyms: accustomed, customary
- Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
- (grammar) Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
- Synonym: consuetudinal
Alternative forms
- habituall (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
habitual (plural habituals)
- (colloquial) One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
- (grammar) A construction representing something done habitually.
Translations
References
Further reading
- habit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?.bi.tu?al/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.bi.tu?al/
Adjective
habitual (masculine and feminine plural habituals)
- habitual; usual
Derived terms
- habitualment
Further reading
- “habitual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Adjective
habitual m or f (plural habituais)
- habitual
- common
Portuguese
Adjective
habitual m or f (plural habituais, comparable)
- habitual (behaving in a regular manner, as a habit)
- habitual (recurring, or that is performed over and over again)
Related terms
- hábito
Romanian
Etymology
From French habituel.
Adjective
habitual m or n (feminine singular habitual?, masculine plural habituali, feminine and neuter plural habituale)
- usual
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin habitu?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abi?twal/, [a.??i?t?wal]
Adjective
habitual (plural habituales)
- habitual
Noun
habitual m (plural habituales)
- (Louisiana) beans
Derived terms
- habitualmente
Related terms
- hábito
- habituar
Further reading
- “habitual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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average
English
Etymology 1
From Middle French avarie, from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria (which is possibly from Arabic ???????????? (?aw?riyya, “damaged goods”), from ??????? (?aw?r, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from ??????? (?awira, “to lose an eye”)) + English suffix -age.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: ?v??r?j, ?v?r?j IPA(key): /?æv???d??/, /?æv??d??/
Noun
average (plural averages)
- (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
- The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
- (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. [from c. 1735]
- (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. [from 15th c.]
- 2008, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment, page 219,
- Historically, the courts have allowed a general average claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril. […] The court awarded the carrier the general average claim. It noted that “a ship?s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general average.
- 2008, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment, page 219,
- Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
- Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
- (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
- (Britain, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
Usage notes
- (mathematics, statistics): The term average may refer to the statistical mean, median or mode of a batch, sample, or distribution, or sometimes any other measure of central tendency. Statisticians and responsible news sources are careful to use whichever of these specific terms is appropriate. In common usage, average refers to the arithmetic mean. It is, however, a common rhetorical trick to call the most favorable of mean, median and mode the "average" depending on the interpretation of a set of figures that the speaker or writer wants to promote.
Coordinate terms
- (measure of central tendency): arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, mean, median, mode
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
average (comparative more average, superlative most average)
- (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
- Typical.
- 2002, Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life, page 12,
- We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.
- 2004, Deirdre V. Lovecky, Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits, page 75,
- Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.
- 2009, Susan T. Fiske, Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology, page 73,
- In other words, highly attractive people like highly attractive communicators and more average people like more average communicators.
- 2002, Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life, page 12,
- (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
- 2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 228,
- The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average. However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.
- 2005, Brad Knight, Laci Peterson: The Whole Story: Laci, Scott, and Amber's Deadly Love Triangle, page 308,
- But what the vast majority of the populace doesn?t realise is the fact that he?s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he?s only a very average attorney.
- 2009, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side, page 62,
- In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.
- 2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 228,
Synonyms
- (constituting or relating to the average): av., ave., avg., expectation (colloquial), mean
- (neither very good nor very bad): mediocre, medium, middle-ranking, middling, unremarkable, so-so, comme ci comme ça
- (typical): conventional, normal, regular, standard, typical, usual, bog-standard (slang)
- (not outstanding, not good; bad or poor): ordinary, uninspiring
Antonyms
- (neither very good nor very bad): extraordinary
Derived terms
- average bear
- average Joe
- averagely
- averageness
Translations
Verb
average (third-person singular simple present averages, present participle averaging, simple past and past participle averaged)
- (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.
- (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- to average a loss
- (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
- 1872 Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds
- Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]
- 1872 Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds
Derived terms
- average down
- average out
- average up
- averageable
- unaveraged
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English average, from Medieval Latin averagium, from aver (“horse or other beast of burden, service required from the same”) from Old English eafor (“obligation to carry goods and convey messages for one's lord”) from aferian (“to remove, take away”); + -age.
Noun
average (plural averages)
- (Britain, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
German
Etymology
From English average.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?æv???d??], [??v???t?]
- Hyphenation: ave?rage
Adjective
average (not comparable)
- (dated, business) average
Further reading
- “average” in Duden online
Middle French
Etymology
The Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch derives the word from Old French aver +? -age, where aver means "cattle" and is cognate to English aver (“work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden”). The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) compares it to Medieval Latin averagium, from averia (“beast of burden”) (which the Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch in turn links to habe? (“to have”)).
Noun
average m (plural averages)
- average (service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.)
References
- average on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (average)
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