habitus

From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habeō (“have; maintain”). The plural habiti is a pseudo-Latin innovation in English, as the plural of the Latin noun is in fact habitūs, with lengthened vowel, the word being an u-stem. This is reflected by the English plural habitus which is occasionally encountered. (The form habitī does exist in Latin as well, but it is irrelevant as it is the plural form of the participle habitus -- and not of the noun habitus which is the source of this English term.)

habitus (countable and uncountable, plural habiti or habitus or habituses)

1. (zoology) habitude; mode of life; bearing.
2. (zoology, chiefly invertebrates) General appearance.
   • 1963, Alan H. Cheetham, Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region, page 30:

     [M]any species having eschariform zoaria in quiet water are able to assume the membraniporiform habitus in strongly agitated water.

3. (botany) habit
4. (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.
5. (sociology) The lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.
6. (liturgy) The liturgical clothing of monks, nuns and the clerical community, metaphorically referring to the religious mode of life.

• The plural is quite rare.
• The main distinction between usage in botany versus zoology is that a plant's habit is a more or less technical statement of its growth form and structure (e.g. liana vs. tree vs. acaulescent herbaceous), while in zoology, the habitus is often not even qualified or described other than to serve as a more technical statement that the taxon resembles another. This is especially common for Hexapoda and Arachnida.

• “habitus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ushabti

Borrowed from Latin habitus (“habit”), a noun based on habeō (“have; maintain”).

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• Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧tus

habitus m (plural habitussen or habitus)

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

• → Indonesian: habitus

Internationalism (see English habitus), ultimately from Latin habitus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑbitus/, [ˈhɑ̝bit̪us̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑbitus
• Syllabification^(key): ha‧bi‧tus

habitus

1. habitus

• ulkomuoto

• “habitus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch habitus, from Latin habitus.

• IPA^(key): /haˈbitʊs/
• Rhymes: -tʊs, -ʊs, -s
• Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧tus

habitus (plural habitus-habitus, first-person possessive habitusku, second-person possessive habitusmu, third-person possessive habitusnya)

1. habitus:
   1. (zoology) general appearance
   2. (medicine) the general shape and appearance of the body, usually with reference to weight, adipose distribution, posture, and gait.

      Synonyms: bentuk badan, perawakan

   3. (sociology) the lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.
2. habit:
   1. (psychology) an action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
   2. (botany) the characteristic form in which a given species of plant grows.

• “habitus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Perfect passive participle of habeō (“have”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈha.bi.tus/, [ˈhäbɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.bi.tus/, [ˈäːbit̪us]

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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

• Sardinian: àpidu, àpitu, àpiu

From habeō (I have) +‎ -tus (noun formation suffix).

habitus m (genitive habitūs); fourth declension

1. external aspect, appearance, posture, frame

   Synonyms: speciēs, faciēs, fōrma, frōns

2. habit; disposition; character

   Synonyms: indolēs, natura, ingenium, mēns, character

3. physical or emotional condition
4. dress, attire

Fourth-declension noun.

• “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 Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• habitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • humour; disposition: animi affectio or habitus (De Inv. 2. 5)
    

Borrowed from Latin habitus.

habitus n (plural habitusuri)

1. habitus