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“habitually” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

habitually
by circumlocution, ut solet: ut assolet: ut consuetudo fert (i. e., as he habitually does or is in the habit of doing, or as habit or custom requires). ☞ Mostly by circumlocution with solere (of animate and inanimate beings), or consuevisse, or assuevisse, or insuevisse (of rational beings only, with infinitive: a road by which merchants habitually travel, iter, quo mercatores ire consuerant. Sometimes consuevisse is used as a neuter of things; as is habitually done in anything, ut in aliqua re fieri consuevit [Sall., Cat., 22, 2]: insuesco not Cic. or Caes., but Liv., etc): usitato more: tralaticio more (from old hereditary custom): more suo: moribus suis (according to one’s custom); (ex) consuetudine (from custom or habit). [SYN. in CUSTOM or HABIT]: habitually insubordinate and licentious, assuetus immoderata licentia militari (Justinus, 31, 1, 8): it was very important that our troops should be rendered habitually obedient to discipline, ad disciplinam militiae plurimum intererat insuescere militem nostrum (Liv.). Vid: HABITUAL.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for habitually?
The usual Latin words for “habitually” are cōnsuētūdō, Iūstīnus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.