Where does “habitue” come from?
habitue (English) comes from French habitué, from Latin habituare, from Latin habitus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
habitue (English): One who frequents a place; A devotee
Definitions
- One who frequents a place; A devotee
Ancestry of “habitue”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | habitué | past participle of habituer; a regular, a denizen |
| 2 | Latin | habituare | to bring into a condition or habit of body |
| 3 | Latin | habitus | retained, maintained, having been maintained;... |
| 4 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |