A very small or humble dwelling place, emphasizing its modest size through the diminutive suffix.
From Latin habitaculum with an added -ule diminutive suffix, making it an even smaller form than habitacle. Both forms are extremely rare in modern English but appear in Renaissance English texts.
Habitacule is a linguistic Russian nesting doll—it stacks Latin diminutives to create a word meaning 'a tiny little place to live,' but it's so obscure that most English speakers have never encountered it!
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