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class="foreign notranslate">habere</span> "to have, hold, possess; wear; find oneself, be situated; consider, think, reason, have in mind; manage, keep," from PIE root <a href="/word/*ghabh-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *ghabh- " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*ghabh-</a> "to give or receive."</p> <blockquote> <span class="foreign notranslate">Habit</span> is a custom continued so steadily as to develop a tendency or inclination, physical or moral, to keep it up; as, the <span class="foreign notranslate">habit</span> of early rising; the <span class="foreign notranslate">habit</span> of smoking. <span class="foreign notranslate">Habit</span> and <span class="foreign notranslate">practice</span> apply more often to the acts of an individual; <span class="foreign notranslate">fashion</span> and <span class="foreign notranslate">usage</span> more often to many .... [Century Dictionary] </blockquote> <p>Meaning "clothing generally" is from late 14c. Meaning "customary practice, usual mode of action" is early 14c. Drug sense is from 1887. The Latin word was applied to both inner and outer states of being, and both senses were taken in English, though meaning of "dress" now is restricted to monks and nuns. In 19c. it also was used of the costume worn by women when riding on horseback.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:early%2013c.">early 13c.</a></div></div></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><div id="etymonline_v_41599" style="position:absolute;top:-100px"></div><p title="Origin and meaning of habit" class="word__name--TTbAA">habit<!-- --> <!-- -->(v.)</p><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>mid-14c., "to dwell, reside; dwell in" (obsolete), from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">habiter</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">abiter</span> "to dwell, inhabit; have dealings with," from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">habitare</span> "to live, dwell; stay, remain," frequentative of <span class="foreign notranslate">habere</span> "to have, to hold, possess" (from PIE root <a href="/word/*ghabh-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *ghabh- " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*ghabh-</a> "to give or receive"). Meaning "to dress" is from 1580s. Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Habited</span>; <span class="foreign notranslate">habiting</span>.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:mid-14c.">mid-14c.</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to habit">Entries linking to <i>habit</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of habiliment" href="/word/habiliment#etymonline_v_1354">habiliment<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>often <span class="foreign notranslate">habiliments</span>, early 15c., <span class="foreign notranslate">ablement</span>, "munitions, weapons," from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">habillement</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">abillement</span>, from <span class="foreign notranslate">abiller</span> "prepare or fit out," probably from <span class="foreign notranslate">abile</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">habile</span> "fit, suitable," from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">habilem</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">habilis</span> "easily handled, apt," verbal adjective from <span class="foreign notranslate">habere</span> "to hold" (from PIE root <a href="/word/*ghabh-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *ghabh- " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*ghabh-</a> "to give or receive"). An alternative etymology [Barnhart, Klein] makes the French verb originally mean "reduce a tree by stripping off the branches," from <span class="foreign notranslate">a-</span> "to" + <span class="foreign notranslate">bille</span> "stick of wood." Sense of "clothing, dress" developed late 15c., by association with <a href="/word/habit#etymonline_v_1355" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habit " class="crossreference notranslate">habit</a> (n.).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of *ghabh-" href="/word/*ghabh-#etymonline_v_52818">*ghabh-<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>also <span class="foreign notranslate">*ghebh-</span>, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to give or receive." The basic sense of the root probably is "to hold," which can be either in offering or in taking.</p> <p>It might form all or part of: <a href="/word/able" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of able " class="crossreference notranslate">able</a>; <a href="/word/avoirdupois" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of avoirdupois " class="crossreference notranslate">avoirdupois</a>; <a href="/word/binnacle" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of binnacle " class="crossreference notranslate">binnacle</a>; <a href="/word/cohabit" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of cohabit " class="crossreference notranslate">cohabit</a>; <a href="/word/cohabitation" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of cohabitation " class="crossreference notranslate">cohabitation</a>; <a href="/word/debenture" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of debenture " class="crossreference notranslate">debenture</a>; <a href="/word/debit" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of debit " class="crossreference notranslate">debit</a>; <a href="/word/debt" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of debt " class="crossreference notranslate">debt</a>; <a href="/word/dishabille" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of dishabille " class="crossreference notranslate">dishabille</a>; <a href="/word/due" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of due " class="crossreference notranslate">due</a>; <a href="/word/duty" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of duty " class="crossreference notranslate">duty</a>; <a href="/word/endeavor" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of endeavor " class="crossreference notranslate">endeavor</a>; <a href="/word/exhibit" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of exhibit " class="crossreference notranslate">exhibit</a>; <a href="/word/exhibition" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of exhibition " class="crossreference notranslate">exhibition</a>; <a href="/word/forgive" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of forgive " class="crossreference notranslate">forgive</a>; <a href="/word/gavel" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of gavel " class="crossreference notranslate">gavel</a>; <a href="/word/gift" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of gift " class="crossreference notranslate">gift</a>; <a href="/word/give" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of give " class="crossreference notranslate">give</a>; <a href="/word/habeas corpus" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habeas corpus " class="crossreference notranslate">habeas corpus</a>; <a href="/word/habiliment" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habiliment " class="crossreference notranslate">habiliment</a>; <a href="/word/habit" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habit " class="crossreference notranslate">habit</a>; <a href="/word/habitable" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habitable " class="crossreference notranslate">habitable</a>; <a href="/word/habitant" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habitant " class="crossreference notranslate">habitant</a>; <a href="/word/habitat" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habitat " class="crossreference notranslate">habitat</a>; <a href="/word/habitation" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habitation " class="crossreference notranslate">habitation</a>; <a href="/word/habitual" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habitual " class="crossreference notranslate">habitual</a>; <a href="/word/habituate" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habituate " class="crossreference notranslate">habituate</a>; <a href="/word/habituation" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habituation " class="crossreference notranslate">habituation</a>; <a href="/word/habitude" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habitude " class="crossreference notranslate">habitude</a>; <a href="/word/habitue" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of habitue " class="crossreference notranslate">habitue</a>; <a href="/word/inhabit" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of inhabit " class="crossreference notranslate">inhabit</a>; <a href="/word/inhibit" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of inhibit " class="crossreference notranslate">inhibit</a>; <a href="/word/inhibition" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of inhibition " class="crossreference notranslate">inhibition</a>; <a href="/word/malady" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of malady " class="crossreference notranslate">malady</a>; <a href="/word/prebend" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of prebend " class="crossreference notranslate">prebend</a>; <a href="/word/prohibit" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of prohibit " class="crossreference notranslate">prohibit</a>; <a href="/word/prohibition" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of prohibition " class="crossreference notranslate">prohibition</a>; <a href="/word/provender" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of provender " class="crossreference notranslate">provender</a>.</p> <p>It might also be the source of: Sanskrit <span class="foreign notranslate">gabhasti-</span> "hand, forearm;" Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">habere</span> "to have, hold, possess," <span class="foreign notranslate">habitus</span> "condition, demeanor, appearance, dress;" Old Irish <span class="foreign notranslate">gaibim</span> "I take, hold, I have," <span class="foreign notranslate">gabal</span> "act of taking;" Lithuanian <span class="foreign notranslate">gabana</span> "armful," <span class="foreign notranslate">gabenti</span> "to remove;" Gothic <span class="foreign notranslate">gabei</span> "riches;" Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">giefan</span>, Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">gefa</span> "to give."</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of habit">Trends of <i>habit</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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1520s in modern sense "render (a person) unaccustomed to (something), cause to lose (a habit...</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of frock" href="/word/frock"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">frock<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">mid-14c., from Old French froc "a monk's habit; clothing, dress" (12c.), which is of unknown origin; perhaps from Frankish *hrok or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German hroc "mantle, coat;" Old Norse rokkr, Old English rocc, Old Frisian rokk, German Rock "a coat, o</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of sue" href="/word/sue"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">sue<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">late 13c., seuen, "follow after, walk behind," a sense now obsolete, from Anglo-French suer "follow after, continue," Old French suir, sivre "pursue, follow after; 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