Where does “habituate” come from?
Habituate comes from Middle English habituate, from Latin habituatus, the past participle of Latin habituare, meaning to make accustomed.
habituate (English): To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize;...
Definitions
- To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize;...
Ancestry of “habituate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | habituate | physically established or present |
| 2 | Latin | habituatus | — |
| 3 | Latin | habituare | to bring into a condition or habit of body |
| 4 | Latin | habitus | retained, maintained, having been maintained;... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
Words derived from “habituate”