edifice (a building, especially an imposing one) · a large, multi-story building with rooms or floor belonging to different people or used for different purposes, such as an apartment block or skyscraper
çekim: çoğul prédios
köken: From Latin praedium (“estate”).
Vi os prédios subindo, a mata acabando / Aproveitei e arranhei o céu
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…