Meanings
comparative more compartmentlike · superlative most compartmentlike
- Resembling a compartment.
His art and his story are like few others, and MoMA puts both across in an inspired installation: a single long corridor with compartmentlike rooms of paintings on each side, and at the very end, against a sea-green wall, a life-size doll with giant bat wings floating above her.
2007 February 9, Holland Cotter, “Modernist in Loincloth and Feathers”, in New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincom-
- Proto-Indo-European*perh₃-
- Proto-Indo-European*pérh₃tis?
- Proto-Italic*partis
- Latinpars
- Latinpartiō
- Latinpartior
- Latincompartīrī
- Italiancompartire
- Italiancompartimento
- Middle Frenchcompartiment
- Englishcompartment
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishcompartmentlike
From compartment + -like.
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