The story
- Latin · derived fromhabitābilis“habitable”
- Middle French · derived fromhabitable
- Middle English · inherited fromabitable
- English todayhabitable
From Middle English abitable, habytable, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”). By surface analysis, habit (“inhabit”) + able.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.