compartment

English

Etymology

First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: [kəm-pärtmənt]

Noun

compartment (plural compartments)

1. A room, or section, or chamber

   • "Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class carriage."

2. One of the parts in which an area is subdivided.
3. (biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.

Translations

chamber

Arabic: مقصورة (ar) (maqDuura) f. Bulgarian: купе (bg) n., отделение (bg) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 車廂 (zh), 车厢 (zh) (chēxiāng), 包房 (zh) (bāofáng) Czech: oddělení (cs) n., (on a train) kupé (cs) n. Finnish: osasto (fi), aitio (fi), loosi (fi), kammio (fi) French: compartiment (fr) m. German: Abteil (de) n.

Hindi: डिब्बा (hi) (ḍibbā) m. Japanese: コンパートメント (ja) (konpātomento), 仕切り (ja) (しきり, shikiri), 区画 (ja) (くかく, kukaku) Norwegian: kupé (no) m. Romanian: compartiment (ro) n. Russian: отделение (ru) (otdelénije) n., отсек (ru) (otsék) m., купе (ru) (kupé) n. (in a train) Spanish: compartimiento (es) m.

part into which an area is subdivided

Bulgarian: отделение (bg) n. Finnish: osa (fi) Romanian: compartiment (ro) n., compartimente (ro) n. pl.

Russian: отделение (ru) (otdelénije) n., отсек (ru) (otsék) m. Spanish: compartimiento (es) m.