building · apartment building · piece of real property, piece of real estate (including both land and buildings)
çekim: çoğul immeubles
eş: bâtiment, tour
zıt: meuble
köken: Inherited from Old French immeuble/immoble, borrowed from Latin immōbilis (“that which is immovable”) but adapted to the ending of meuble (“furniture”), inherited from the Latin antonym mōbilis (“that which is movable”). The two terms constituted a recurrent pair in juridical Latin. Doublet of immobile.
Je vivais autrefois dans un duplex, puis je suis déménagé dans un immeuble.
köken: Borrowed from French bloc, from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”).
köken: From French bloc (“group, block”), from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch bloc (“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”).
apartment building, apartment block, block of flats (residential building containing multiple apartments or flats stacked on multiple floors or storeys)
island · insula, a residential or apartment block (usually for the lower class), tenement, apartment building
çekim: çoğul īnsulae · tamlayan īnsulae
köken: From Proto-Italic *enselā, of uncertain origin. The relation to similar forms such as Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”) and Proto-Celtic *enistī (“island”) (whence Breton enez, Irish inis and Welsh ynys) is unclear. Pokorny (1959) tentatively connects it to salum (“the sea”): he posits ellipsis from terra in salō (“land in the sea”) to in (“in”) + salō, invoking the similar Ancient Greek word…