habitacle

From French habitacle, from Latin habitāculum (“dwelling place”). See binnacle, habit (verb), inhabit.

habitacle (plural habitacles)

1. (obsolete) A dwelling or habitation.

Learned borrowing from Late Latin habitāculum. Doublet of bitàcola.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βiˈta.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.biˈta.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [a.biˈta.kle]

habitacle m (plural habitacles)

1. dwelling, abode
   • 2022, Maria Carme Roca i Costa, Katalepsis:

     Només sé que han estat els cabrons de l'Alexis i l'Edu que m'han entaforat en un habitacle petitíssim on no em puc ni moure.

     I only know that it was those bastards Alexi and Edu who crammed me into a tiny abode where I can't even move.

• habitacular

• “habitacle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “habitacle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Late Latin habitāculum.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.takl/

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habitacle m (plural habitacles)

1. (literary) habitation, dwelling
2. (nautical) binnacle
3. (aviation) cockpit
4. interior (of a car)

• “habitacle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.