inhabitable

inhabitable
(i-na-bi-ta-bl') adj.
Qui n'est pas habitable. Les anciens croyaient la zone torride inhabitable à cause de la chaleur.
•   L'Égypte serait alors devenue, en grande partie, inhabitable, peu propre du moins au commerce, RAYNAL Hist. phil. I, 12.
•   Franchissons du désert le sable inhabitable, LEMERCIER Louis IX, IV, 2.
   XVe s.
•   Crolieres et lieux inhabitables, FROISS. liv. IV, p. 200, dans LACURNE, au mot sauvagement..
   XVIe s.
•   Ceulx de qui la mer, les montagnes et les deserts inhabitables ne peuvent arrester l'avarice, AMYOT Pyrrhus, 33.
   Lat. inhabitabilis, de in.... 1, et habitare, habiter.

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