appurtenance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an accessory, subordinate part, or piece of equipment belonging to something more important

   The camera case had a separate pocket for every cable and appurtenance.

2. 2
   noun

   in property law, a right, privilege, building, or improvement attached to a principal property and transferred with it

   The deed conveyed the farmhouse together with every easement and appurtenance.

From Middle English appurtenaunce, through Anglo-Norman apurtenance, from apurtenir ('to belong to, appertain'), ultimately Latin ad- ('to') + pertinere ('to belong or extend to'). The legal sense preserves the core idea of something that belongs to a principal thing.

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