- habitation (n.)
- late 14c., "act or fact of dwelling;" also "place of lodging, abode," from Old French habitacion, abitacion "a dwelling; act of dwelling" (12c.) or directly from Latin habitationem (nominative habitatio) "a dwelling," noun of action from past participle stem of habitare "to live, inhabit, dwell," frequentative of habere "to have, to hold, possess" (see habit (n.)).
