The corpus record — Latin

habitaculum

habitaculum · n

a dwellingplace

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

hăbĭtācŭlum — Lewis & Short

hăbĭtācŭlum, i, n.id.,

I a dwellingplace, habitation (post-class.).

I Lit.: leonis, Gell. 5, 14, 21: avium, Pall. 1, 23.—

II Transf., of the body, as the dwellingplace of the soul, Prud. Cath. 10, 39.

In the wild

habitacula Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.2.18
habitacula Ausonius, Epistularum 31.244
habitacula Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.42
habitaculo Tertullian, De Patientia 13
habitacula Prudentius, Cathemerina 10.40
habitacula Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.23.p1

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.