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…
köken: From Middle Low German legelicheit (“situation”), form the adjective legelik (“situated”). Compare Middle Low German legenhēt (“situation, opportunity”) (whence Swedish lägenhet (“apartment”)) from legen (“lying”) and German Gelegenheit (“opportunity”) from gelegen (“lying”).