Etymology

officetel

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Today it means: a multi-purpose building in Korea with both residential and commercial units Full definition →

Korean 오피스텔 ← English office
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The story

  1. English · derived fromoffice
  2. Korean · borrowed from오피스텔
  3. English todayofficetel

Borrowed from Korean 오피스텔 (opiseutel), a pseudo-anglicism from English office + hotel.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.