“dwell” in Latin

PROP. To reside, habitare (general term): incolere (to have one’s usual residence in a place or country): to dwell by or near a place, accolere locum (e.g., viam; flumen): to dwell in or at a place, aliquo loco (☞ not locum) habitare (to have taken up one’s abode in; e.g., urbe): domicilium or sedem ac domicilium habere in aliquo loco (to have one’s residence at): locum incolere (to have one’s usual residence at; e.g., urbem, trans Rhenum, inter mare Alpesque): locum colere (to inhabit it, as being one who tills its soil, makes one of its population, pursues one’s business in it, etc.; e.g., has terras, urbem, circa utramque ripam Rhodani): to dwell with anybody, in alicujus domo, or apud aliquem, habitare; apud aliquem or in alicujus domo deversari (in anybody’s house; the latter only for a time, and as a guest); cum aliquo habitare (to occupy a house jointly with him): to dwell next door to each other, continuas tenere domos: to dwell by or near to, accolere (aliquem locum, Cic., Rep., 8, 5): to dwell near anybody, prope or juxta aliquem habitare; above anybody, supra aliquem habitare; beneath the earth, sub terra habitare: the Troglodytes, who dwell in caves, Troglodytae, quibus subterraneae domus sunt.

FIG., To dwell upon a thing, rem longius prosequi (to pursue it further); morari in re, commorari, habitare, haerere in re (Vid: Cic., De Pr., 2, 72, 292; these three in the order given, where only habitare occurs in this sense): to dwell too long upon anything, longum esse: not to dwell too long upon it, ne longum fiat: to dwell upon trifles, morari in parvis (Ov., A.A., 2, 335): to dwell long on each particular, diu haerere in singulis: to dwell upon a word (= speak it with emphasis), verbum premere (☞ not urgere); upon a syllable, *syllabam cum accentu efferre or enunciare.