The corpus record — Latin

habitator

habitator · m

a dweller

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Where it lives

Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — Lewis & Short

hăbĭtātor, ōris, m.habito,

I a dweller in a house, tenant, occupant: tuam (domum) in Carinis mundi habitatores Lamiae conduxerunt, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 7: inesse aliquem habitatorem in hac caelesti ac divina domo, id. ib. 2, 35, 90: tumultu habitatorum, Liv. 21, 62, 3 al.: testa in illa vidit habitatorem magnum, Juv. 14, 311; Sen. Ep. 45, 10; Plin. Pan. 50, 3.—

II Transf., an inhabitant of a country, etc.: incolae atque habitatores, Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 140: civitas habitatoribus vacua, Amm. 24, 2, 3: habitatores pagorum, id. 23, 6, 44: oppidi, id. 31, 5, 5; 22, 8, 35: lunae, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 11, 7.

In the wild

habitatoribus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.23.p4
habitatoribus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.35
habitatores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.44
habitator Martial, Epigrammata 9.51.5
habitatores Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 2.3.7
habitatores Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.140

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. habitator (scan p. 311; entry #4890).

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