The story
- Late Latin · derived fromhabituare“to habituate”
- French · borrowed fromhabitué
- English todayhabitué
Borrowed from French habitué, past participle of habituer (“to frequent”), from Late Latin habituare (“to habituate”), from habitus.
First known use, by meaning
- from 1818 One who frequents a place.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.