köken: Borrowed from Russian фатера (fatera), old form of кварти́ра (kvartíra, “apartment, flat”), from German Quartier or Dutch kwartier, from French quartier, from Latin quartārius. Cognate with Bashkir фатир (fatir), Kyrgyz батир (batir), etc.
köken: Adapted borrowing of Russian кварти́ра (kvartíra, “apartment, flat”), from German Quartier or Dutch kwartier, from French quartier, from Latin quartārius.
köken: Adapted borrowing of Russian кварти́ра (kvartíra, “apartment, flat”), from German Quartier or Dutch kwartier, from French quartier, from Latin quartārius. Cognate with Kazakh пәтер (päter), Kyrgyz батир (batir).
köken: Borrowed from Italian appartamento, possibly through French appartement and/or Spanish apartamento. Ultimately from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”), from apartar (“to separate”). By surface analysis, apartar + -mento.
köken: Calque of French appartement, from διαμερίζω (diamerízo, “to partition”) + -μα (-ma, “nominal suffix”), the former from δια- (dia-) + μερίζω (merízo). Attested since 1871.
apartment building, apartment block, block of flats (residential building containing multiple apartments or flats stacked on multiple floors or storeys)