Where does “apartment” come from?
Apartment comes from French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento, meaning a separated dwelling, ultimately from Latin apartus and the suffix -mentum.
apartment (English): A complete domicile occupying only part of a...
Definitions
- A complete domicile occupying only part of a...
Ancestry of “apartment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | appartement | apartment, flat |
| 2 | Italian | appartamento | apartment, flat |
| 3 | Spanish | apartamiento | separation, seclusion; flat, apartment |
| 4 | Spanish | apartar | to separate, to divide; to set aside; to avert |
| 5 | Spanish | -ar | In adjectives, indicating membership or status;... |
| 6 | Old Spanish | -ar | indicates membership or status |
| 7 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |