Habitative

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 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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