hab, hib Latinhabere to have IEghabh- to grasp, take [to hold, have]
SIMPLE ROOT: habiliments (clothing, dress, attire; also, furnishings or equipment; trappings) habilitate (to clothe; equip; outfit; in mining, to provide a mine with the capital and equipment needed to work it) habit (SYN: custom, practice, wont; in biology, the tendency of a plant or animal to grow in a certain way; characteristic trait; an obsolete meaning: costume; dress) habitable (that can be inhabited; fit to be lived in) habitat (the region where a plant or animal naturally grows or lives), habitation (a place in which to live; dwelling; home) habitual (SYN: customary, usual, wonted) habituate, habitude, habitus (general physical appearance)
PREFIXED ROOT:habcohabit (to live together as husband and wife, especially when not legally married; to live or exist together; share the same place) {cohabitation}, cohabitant (com with) dishabille (the state of being dressed only partially or in night clothes) (dis opposite) inhabit, 1inhabitable (that can be inhabited; fit to live in; habitable), inhabitancy, inhabitant, inhabitation, inhabited) (in in) [Note: 2inhabitable: an obsolete word for not habitable] rehabilitate (lit., to restore) (re again)hibadhibit (to administer, as a remedy) {adhibition} (ad to) exhibit (SYN: 1evidence, proof, testimony; 2display, expose, flaunt, show), exhibition, exhibitioner, exhibitionism exhibitive, exhibitor, exhibitory (ex out) inhibit (SYN: check, curb, restrain), inhibition, inhibitor (in in) prohibit (SYN: forbid, interdict, proscribe), prohibition, prohibitionist, prohibitive (pro before) uninhibited (without inhibition) (un not + inhibited)
DISGUISED ROOT: able (SYN: capable, competent, qualified), ability binnacle (the upright cylindrical stand holding a ship's compass) debt (in theology, a sin), debtor (de from + habere), due
PREFIXED DISGUISED ROOT: disability, disable (SYN: cripple, maim, mangle, mutilate) (dis opposite) enable {enabler} (en in); unable (Anglo-Saxon un negative) indebted (in debt or under legal obligation to repay something received; owing gratitude, as for a favor received) (in in) malady (from Vulgar Latinmale habitus, badly kept, out of condition; a disease, sickness; often used figuratively) [see Note on Vulgar Latin]