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habitative, a.|ˈhæbɪtətɪv|
[f. L. ppl. stem habitāt- (see habitate) + -ive.]
Of or pertaining to habitation or occupancy by inhabitants.
Now esp. in place-name studies.
1578[see possessive a. 2]. 1888Archæol. Rev. Mar. 51 The students of Toponomastique, as the French call the modern science of ‘habitative nomenclature’. 1929A. Mawer Probl. Place-Name Study iii. 124 By the time that tun had become the great habitative suffix there were probably few such groups left. 1961K. Cameron Eng. Place-Names ii. 27 Place-names..can be divided into two main types, habitative and topographical. 1967A. H. Smith Place-Names of Westmorland I. p. xxxviii, The older English settlements are represented by some 30 or more habitative names of parishes and villages. |