different between habitude vs habitus

English

Etymology

From Middle English habitude, from Middle French habitude, from Latin habit?d? (“condition, plight, habit, appearance”), from habe? (“I have, hold, keep”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæb??tju?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

habitude (countable and uncountable, plural habitudes)

1. (archaic) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint (114)

     His real habitude gave life and grace To appertainings and to ornament.

2. (archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature
   • 1683, John Dryden, Life of Plutarch (21)

     An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

     […] there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]

3. (obsolete) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.
   • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron (4.21)

     Proportion ... signifies the habitude or relation of one quantity to another.

4. (obsolete) In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
   • 1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England (1.165)

     Although I believe not the report in full habitude.

5. (obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.
   • 1665, John Evelyn, Memoirs (3.65)

     The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.

6. (obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
   • 1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode (4.1)

     La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had.

7. Habit; custom; usage.
   • 1599, James I of England, Basilikon Doron (28)

     Which ... by long habitude, are thought rather vertue than vice among them.

8. (obsolete) A chemical term used in the plural to denote the various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.
   • 1818, Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (32)

     Most authors who have had occasion to describe naphthaline, have noticed its habitudes with sulphuric acid.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “habitude”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

From Latin habit?d?.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.tyd/

Noun

habitude f (plural habitudes)

1. habit (action done on a regular basis)

Derived terms

• avoir habitude
• d'habitude
• par habitude

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

habitude (plural habitudes)

1. habit (action done on a regular basis)

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1365, borrowed from Latin habit?d?. The meaning 'habit' seems to have developed under the influence of habituer (“to habituate” reflexively “to become habituated”).

Noun

habitude f (plural habitudes)

1. relationship
2. habit (action done on a regular basis)

References

English

Etymology

From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habe? (“have; maintain”).

Noun

habitus (countable and uncountable, plural habiti) (Almost all uses of the word in English are in noncount senses; thus, the plural habiti, corresponding to the Latin plural, is rare in English.)

1. (zoology) habitude; mode of life; bearing, general appearance.
2. (botany) habit; general shape and appearance of a species or variety of plant.
3. (anatomy, medicine) the general shape and appearance of the body, usually with reference to weight, adipose distribution, posture, and gait; most often called by the collocation body habitus.
4. (sociology) The lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.
5. (liturgy) The liturgical clothing of monks, nuns and the clerical community, metaphorically referring to the religious mode of life.

Translations

References

• habitus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• ushabti

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habe? (“have; maintain”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ha?bi?tus

Noun

habitus m (plural habitussen)

1. manner, behaviour
2. general physical appearance such as shape of the body
3. (zoology) general appearance and/or behaviour of a plant

Finnish

Noun

habitus

1. habitus

Declension

Synonyms

• ulkomuoto

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of habe? (“have”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ha.bi.tus/, [?häb?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.bi.tus/, [???bit?us]

Participle

habitus (feminine habita, neuter habitum); first/second-declension participle

1. retained, maintained, having been maintained
2. (by extension) well-kept; stout, fleshy, burly

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 2

From habe? (I have) +? -tus (noun formation suffix)

Noun

habitus m (genitive habit?s); fourth declension

1. habit; disposition; character
2. physical or emotional condition
3. dress, attire

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

Borrowings

References

• habitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• habitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• habitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.