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) (maqSuura) f
• Bulgarian: купе (bg) (kupe) n, отделение (bg) (otdelenie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車廂 (cmn), 车厢 (cmn) (chēxiāng), 包房 (cmn) (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
• Swedish: avdelning (sv) c

part into which an area is subdivided

• Bulgarian: отделение (bg) (otdelenie) n
• Finnish: osa (fi)
• Irish: urrann (ga) f
• Romanian: compartiment (ro) n, compartimente (ro) n pl

• Russian: отделение (ru) (otdelénije) n, отсек (ru) (otsék) m
• Spanish: compartimiento (es) m
• Swedish: fack (sv) n