different between habitual vs rumdum

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rumdum (plural rumdums)

1. (slang) An habitual drunkard; a stupid person.
   • 1992, Stephen King, Gerald's Game, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, page 142.

     When a fellow comes into the kitchen to freshen his drink and finds the rumdum from up the road with one hand on his wife's behind and the other down the front of her

2. A cocktail made from rum, applejack and lime juice.

Adjective

rumdum

1. (slang) Dulled or incapacitated by alcohol; unconscious; stupid.

   He was rumdum from beer and pills.

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

• girumdum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rum.?dum/

Verb

rumdum

1. to remember

   Antonym: lingaw

Icelandic

Verb

rumdum (weak)

1. first-person plural past indicative of rymja