property

The story

1. Latin · derived fromproprietās“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”
2. Old French · derived frompropreté
3. Middle English · inherited frompropertee
4. English todayproperty

From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietās (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Equivalent to proper + -ty. Doublet of propriety.

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