Where does “apartamento” come from?

apartamento (Esperanto) comes from French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento, from Spanish apartar, from Spanish -ar, from Old Spanish -ar, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

apartamento (Esperanto): apartment, flat

Definitions

  1. apartment, flat

Ancestry of “apartamento”, step by step

apartamento traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via French appartement

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchappartementapartment, flat
2Italianappartamentoapartment, flat
3Spanishapartamientoseparation, seclusion; flat, apartment
4Spanishapartarto separate, to divide; to set aside; to avert
5Spanish-arIn adjectives, indicating membership or status;...
6Old Spanish-arindicates membership or status
7Latinsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
8Proto-Indo-EuropeanDerives nouns from roots

via Portuguese apartamento

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueseapartamentoflat, apartment

via Spanish apartamento

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishapartamentoflat, apartment
Every word from Proto-Indo-European Every word from Latin Every word from Spanish -ar