Where does “multiapartment” come from?
multiapartment (English) comes from English apartment, from French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento, from Spanish apartar, from Spanish -ar, from Old Spanish -ar, from Latin -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
multiapartment (English): Of or relating to more than one apartment
Definitions
- Of or relating to more than one apartment
Ancestry of “multiapartment”, step by step
multiapartment traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English apartment
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | apartment | A complete domicile occupying only part of a... |
| 2 | French | appartement | apartment, flat |
| 3 | Italian | appartamento | apartment, flat |
| 4 | Spanish | apartamiento | separation, seclusion; flat, apartment |
| 5 | Spanish | apartar | to separate, to divide; to set aside; to avert |
| 6 | Spanish | -ar | In adjectives, indicating membership or status;... |
| 7 | Old Spanish | -ar | indicates membership or status |
| 8 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |
via English multi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | multi | A multituberculate; Neolamprologus multifasciatus |
| 2 | English | multituberculate | Having molars with multiple rows of cusps; Any of... |
| 3 | English | tuberculate | Having tubercles; Tubercular |
| 4 | Latin | tuberculatus | warty, tuberculate |
| 5 | Latin | tūberculum | a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle |
| 6 | Latin | tūber | a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | tūβos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |