The corpus record — Latin

habitatio

habitatio · f

a dwelling

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Fide Catholica 2 · 10.37/10k
Mostellaria 2 · 2.08/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Architectura 9 · 1.56/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5 · 0.71/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hăbĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

hăbĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a dwelling, inhabiting: ad habitationem praebere mansionem, Pall. 1, 9, 1: aquarum, Firm. Math. 2, 10 init.

II Transf., a dwelling, habitation.—

A Lit. (class.; cf.: domus, domicilium, sedes, mansio, tectum): scelestae haec aedes, impiast habitatio, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 73; cf. id. ib. 67: ut nobis haec habitatio Bona, fausta ... eveniat, id. Trin. 1, 2, 2: peto a te, ut ei de habitatione accommodes, Cic. Fam. 13, 2: sumptus habitationis, id. Cael. 7, 17; Cato, R. R. 128; Col. 1, 6, 6: alicui gratuitam habitationem praestare, Gai. Inst. 4, 153; in plur.: mercedes habitationum annuae, house-rent, Caes. B. C. 3, 21, 1.—

B Rent for a dwelling, house-rent: annuam habitationem Romae usque ad bina milia nummum remisit, Suet. Caes. 38.

In the wild

habitationis Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.1.4
habitatio Plautus, Mostellaria 2.2
habitationis Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 17
habitatione Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.2.1
habitationibus Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.6.8
habitatione Tertullian, De Scorpiace 12

6 of 41 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.