Etymology

apartment

a·part·ment
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Today it means: A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat. Full definition →

French appartement ← Italian appartamento ← Spanish apartamiento
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromapartamiento“separation, seclusion”
  2. Italian · derived fromappartamento
  3. French · borrowed fromappartement
  4. English todayapartment

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”), equivalent to apart + -ment. See apart and -ment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.