Etymology

realty

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Today it means: Real estate; a piece of real property; land. Full definition →

Middle French realité
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  1. Middle French · derived fromrealité“property, possession”
  2. English todayrealty

From Middle French realité (“property, possession”). Doublet of reality.

Words from the same roots

Middle Frenchrealité all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.