different between habitual vs everyday

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)

1. Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
2. Regular or usual.

   Synonyms: accustomed, customary
3. Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
4. (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)

1. (colloquial) One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
2. (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)

1. 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)

1. habitual
2. common

Portuguese

Adjective

habitual m or f (plural habituais, comparable)

1. habitual (behaving in a regular manner, as a habit)
2. 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)

1. usual

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin habitu?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abi?twal/, [a.??i?t?wal]

Adjective

habitual (plural habituales)

1. habitual

Noun

habitual m (plural habituales)

1. (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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every +? day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?i?de?/

Adjective

everyday (not comparable)

1. appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
   • 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,

     When they had gone, Bobbie put on her everyday frock, and went down to the railway.

2. commonplace, ordinary
   • 2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:

     Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.

Synonyms

• mundane
• quotidian
• routine
• unremarkable
• workaday

Translations

Adverb

everyday

1. Misspelling of every day. (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).

Usage notes

When describing the frequency of an action denoted by a verb, it is considered correct to separate the individual words: every hour, every day, every week, etc.

Noun

everyday (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday. [14th–19th c.]
2. (rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion

   Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Everyday”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 345, column 1.