hab·i·tant 
(hăbĭ-tənt)
(hăbĭ-tənt)n.
1. An inhabitant.
2. also ha·bi·tan (ă′bē-täɴ) An inhabitant of French ancestry living in Canada, especially Quebec, or in Louisiana.
[Middle English, from Old French, from present participle of habiter, to dwell, from Latin habitāre; see HABITABLE.]