ETYMOLOGY
from Latin habitaculum (dwelling-place)
EXAMPLE
“…of maneres and ek of resoun of hir lyuynge ben enhabyted in the clos of thilke lytul habytacule to the whiche naciouns what for deficulte of weyes and what for deficulte of langages…”
From: Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae,
By Geoffrey Chaucer, 1374
Lexicophilia 