inhabit Copy link Outline 1. incŏlo, ui, cultum, 32. hăbĭto, 1 (to dwell in, have as an abode, with ref. to houses, cities, etc., not whole countries like incolo3. tĕneo, ui, ntum, 2 (to occupy, have possession of) • inhabit: 1. incŏlo, ui, cultum, 3: to i. territory, cities, places, agros, urbes, loca inc., Cic.: Caes. (pass.). Less freq. in this sense, simple verb, colo: what people first i.'d Britain, Britanniam qui mortales initio coluerint, Tac. Agr. 11, init.: they i. both sides of the Rhone, colunt circa utramque ripam Rhodani, Liv. 21, 26. Join: colere et habitare, Cic. Verr. 4, 53, 119. 2. hăbĭto, 1 (to dwell in, have as an abode, with ref. to houses, cities, etc., not whole countries like incolo: both trans. and intrans.): they i. 100 great cities, centum urbes habitant magnas, Virg. Aen. 3, 106: Cic.: Liv.: v. to dwell. Sometimes used as impers. pass.: Xenophanes says the moon is i.'d, habitari ait X. in luna, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123. (N.B.--The comp. inhabito is v. rare, and should be avoided.) 3. tĕneo, ui, ntum, 2 (to occupy, have possession of): Evander had i.'d (or possessed) those regions, E. ea tenuerat loca, Liv. 1, 5. Tac. G. 37, init. Phr.: from this point, the banks of the Indus are i.'d by ..., hinc deinde accolunt ..., Plin. 6, 20, 23 § 77 (cf. Cic. Rep. 6, 18, ea gens quae illum locum accolit): the country is very thickly i.'d, hominum est infinita multitudo [creberrimaque aedificia], Caes. B. G. 5, 12: regions thinly i.'d, quae loca minus frequentata sunt, Sall. Jug. 17.