HABITARE

Etymology and Meaning

  • Etymon: HABITARE
  • Language of the etymon: Latin
  • Latin Conjugation: I
  • Meaning: dwell

Comments

  • i. The inflectional pattern of the present tense in this verb is alleged in the source to be particularly associated with the presence of /l/, /r/, /m/, /n/ or /i/ at the end of the root; where the root-final segment is /i/, we have not -ea but -eia (arpieia 'he harps). But the source lists numerous counterexamples,so that the phonological generalization seems at best weak.

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