abitator

• IPA^(key): /a.bi.taˈtor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: a‧bi‧ta‧tór

abitator m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of abitatore: inhabitant, dweller
   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto XIV”, in Purgatorio, lines 40–42:

     […] hanno sì mutata lor natura
     li abitator de la misera valle,
     che par che Circe li avesse in pastura.

     Have so transformed their nature the dwellers in that miserable valley, it seems that Circe had them in her pasture.

   • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi, “La vita solitaria [The Solitary Life]”, in Canti‎, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 57:

     La mattutina pioggia, allor che, l’ale
     battendo, esulta nella chiusa stanza
     la gallinella, ed al balcon s’affaccia
     l’abitator de’ campi […]

     The morning rain, when the hen, beating her wings, exults in her closed run, and the countryside dweller goes by the balcony

• abortita, orbitata