Habitative
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes in a community.
"It is highly worthy of note that Berber indicates the habitative, in all the derived stems, by a vocalism, more consistently even than Akkadian (exceptions to this rule are only seemingly so)."
- 2 Pertaining to habitation.
"The fiend himself, when started on his ill-intentioned cruise into chaos, could scarcely display a wider range of locomotive and habitative powers."
Example
More examples"It is highly worthy of note that Berber indicates the habitative, in all the derived stems, by a vocalism, more consistently even than Akkadian (exceptions to this rule are only seemingly so)."
Etymology
From habitat + -ive.
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