different between habitue vs habitude

English

Noun

habitue (plural habitues)

1. Alternative spelling of habitué

Anagrams

• Thibeau

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.ty/
• Homophones: habituent, habitues

Verb

habitue

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of habituer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of habituer
3. second-person singular imperative of habituer

Portuguese

Verb

habitue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of habituar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of habituar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of habituar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of habituar

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