different between inhabitant vs indweller

English

Alternative forms

• enhabitant (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitans, present participle of inhabito (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habit? (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habe? (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“seize, take, hold, have”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?hæ.b?.t?nt/
• Hyphenation: in?hab?i?tant

Noun

inhabitant (plural inhabitants)

1. Someone or thing who lives in a place.

Related terms

• inhabit

Translations

Adjective

inhabitant (not comparable)

1. Resident.

Latin

Verb

inhabitant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of inhabit?

Old French

Noun

inhabitant m (oblique plural inhabitanz or inhabitantz, nominative singular inhabitanz or inhabitantz, nominative plural inhabitant)

1. inhabitant

Descendants

• ? English: inhabitant

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (inhabitant)

English

Etymology

From indwell +? -er or in- +? dweller.

Noun

indweller (plural indwellers)

1. One who dwells in a place; an inhabitant.
   • 1883, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (translator), The Suppliant Maidens of Aeschylus, page 28.

     But I will call the country's indwellers,
     And with soft words th' assembly will persuade,

Related terms

• indwell

Translations