habitat

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From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“to live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit, floruit, ignoramus, and tenet from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَوْطِن (mawṭin) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Bulgarian: ареал (areal) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Bulgarian: естествена среда (estestvena sreda) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Catalan: hàbitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Chinese Mandarin: 棲息地 /栖息地 (qīxīdì PRC, qīxídì Taiwan) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Danish: levested — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Danish: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Danish: udbredelsesområde — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Dutch: leefgebied — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Dutch: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Finnish: elinympäristö — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Finnish: elinpaikka — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Finnish: habitaatti — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• French: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Galician: hábitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Georgian: ჰაბიტატი (habiṭaṭi) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• German: Habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• German: Lebensbedingungen — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• German: Lebensraum — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Haitian Creole: abita — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Hindi: वास (vās) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Indonesian: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Indonesian: tempat hidup — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Interlingua: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Italian: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Japanese: 生息地 (seisokuchi) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Kazakh: тіршілік ортасы (tırşılık ortasy) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Korean: 서식지 (seosikji) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Northern Kurdish: jîngeh — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Latvian: dzīvotne — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Malay: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Marathi: अधिवास (adhivās) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Marathi: प्राकृतिक वास (prākŕtik vās) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Norwegian Bokmål: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Norwegian Bokmål: levested — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Norwegian Nynorsk: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Persian: زیستگاه (zistgâh) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Polish: siedlisko — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Portuguese: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Romanian: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Russian: среда́ обита́ния (sredá obitánija) — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Slovene: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Slovene: življenjski prostor — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Spanish: hábitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Tagalog: tirahanan — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Turkish: habitat — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• Welsh: cynefin — natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
• German: natürlicher Lebensraum — type of site where an organism naturally occurs
• German: Standort — type of site where an organism naturally occurs
• German: Heimat — type of site where an organism naturally occurs
• German: Biotop — area distinguished by special natural features
• German: Lebensraum — area distinguished by special natural features
• German: Biotopteil — area distinguished by special natural features
• German: Teilhabitat — area distinguished by special natural features
• German: Teillebensraum — area distinguished by special natural features
• Indonesian: biotop — area distinguished by special natural features