English → Latin
“inhabitant” in Latin
incolainhabitant, residentinquilīnussomeone seen as contemptible as not born inside one's city (especially Rome), a foreigner, adopted citizen; a tourist, scolōnusfarmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil; colonist, colonial, inhabitacīviscitizen; a subject (i.e., a person subject to a ruler)habitōto reside, inhabit, remain, dwell, live; to lingerhomō̆human, person, man; male human being, man; term of address to male peers, especially by another man: man, fellow, mate, oppidānustown; provincial
The English word inhabitant itself goes back to Latin habeō, through inhabitāns.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
inhabitant
incola (inhabitant; opposed to citizen, Cic., Off., 1, 34, μέτοικος, for which Nep., uses sessor): inquilinus (the tenant; opposed to owner of the house, dominus, Cic., Phil., 2, 41, σύνοικος): colonus (farmer; opposed to land-owner, Cic., Caec., 32; something like θής; and also inhabitant of a colony, ἄποικος: it is only in poetry that it is used for “inhabitant” generally): civis (citizen, who, as such, possesses civil rights, etc.; opposed to peregrinus): habitator (general term for one who dwells in a country, etc.): homo (especially in plur., homines, wlien “inhabitants” is used for “men,” “persons;” e.g., haec regio multos alit homines). The inhabitant of a town, oppidi incola, oppidanus (especially as opposed to inhabitant of a village): inhabitant of a village, incola vici; vicanus: paganus (especially as opposed to “inhabitant of a city”): inhabitant of a province, provincialis: the first inhabitants of Britain, qui initio Britanniam incoluerunt.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for inhabitant?
- The usual Latin words for “inhabitant” are incola, inquilīnus, colōnus; also cīvis, habitō, homō̆. 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.