Etymology

habitué

Today it means: One who frequents a place. Full definition →

First used 1818French habitué ← Late Latin habituare
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The story

  1. Late Latin · derived fromhabituare“to habituate”
  2. French · borrowed fromhabitué
  3. 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.