To inhabit a place, habitare (in) loco (to have one’s residence any where; ☞ habitare, inhabitare locum are not classical): colere, incolere locum (to be settled in a place): tenere, obtinere (to possess places, countries, etc.). To inhabit the front part of a building, primum locum aedium tenere: to be inhabited, habitari: thickly inhabited, frequens (tectis): that part of the city is very thickly inhabited, colitur ea pars urbis et habitatur frequentissime (Cic.; also impersonally, vicorum, quibus frequenter habitabatur, Liv. 2, 62, 4; opposed to not at all inhabited): desertus (of countries, places).