apartment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A set of rooms to live in, usually on one floor of a larger building; a flat.

   They rented a small apartment near the city center.

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Simplified etymology

Apartment entered English in the mid-17th century through French and ultimately derives from Latin a parte, “at the side,” which is based on pars, part- “part.”

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

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