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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

habitable

Pronunciation / Transliteration: habitable

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Habitable/ˈhæb.ɪ.tə.bəl/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Los científicos buscan un planeta habitable."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Suitable or good enough to live in.

    "The old house was renovated to make it habitable again."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'habitabilis', stemming from 'habitare' (to dwell or inhabit), which itself is a frequentative form of 'habere' (to have, hold). Entering Middle English in the 15th century via Old French, the term initially described places suitable for human occupancy and has since expanded to ecological and astronomical contexts describing environments capable of sustaining life.

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