attic

See also: Attic

English

Etymology

From the practice of decorating the top storey of building façades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈætɪk/, [ˈæɾɪk]

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• Rhymes: -ætɪk

Noun

attic (plural attics)

1. The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

   We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.

   Synonym: loft

2. (slang) A person's head or brain.

   Synonym: upper storey

   • 1875, John Wight, Mornings at Bow Street (page 105)

     […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.

Derived terms

• attic ladder
• atticless
• atticlike
• toys in the attic

 

Translations

space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof

• Afrikaans: solder
• Albanian: papafingo f, hatull (sq) f
• Arabic: عِلِّيَّة f (ʕilliyya)

  Moroccan Arabic: صطيحة f (ṣṭiḥa)

• Armenian: ձեղնահարկ (hy) (jeġnahark)
• Azerbaijani: çardaq (az), mansarda
• Belarusian: гары́шча n (harýšča), падда́шак m (paddášak), манса́рда f (mansárda), гара́ (be) f (hará)
• Breton: mañsardenn f, grignol (br) f, solier (br) f
• Bulgarian: тава́н (bg) m (taván), манса́рда f (mansárda)
• Burmese: သင်္ဘောကြမ်း (my) (sangbhau:kram:)
• Catalan: golfes (ca) f pl, àtic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閣樓／阁楼 (zh) (gélóu), 阁楼 (zh) (gélóu)

• Czech: půda (cs) f, podkroví (cs) n, podstřeší n
• Danish: loftsrum
• Dutch: zolder (nl) m
• Esperanto: mansardo (eo)
• Estonian: pööning
• Faroese: loft n
• Finnish: vintti (fi), ullakko (fi)
• French: grenier (fr) m, combles (fr) m pl, mansarde (fr) f
• Galician: rocho (gl) m, faiado (gl) m, sobrado (gl) m, zapón m, faillo m
• Georgian: მანსარდა (mansarda), სხვენი (sxveni)
• German: Dachgeschoss (de) n, Dachboden (de) m, Estrich (de) m (Switzerland)
• Greek: σοφίτα (el) f (sofíta)
• Hebrew: עֲלִיַת גַג / עליית גג f (aliat gag)
• Hindi: अटारी (hi) f (aṭārī)
• Hungarian: padlás (hu), manzárd (hu)
• Icelandic: háaloft n, þakhæð f, loft (is) n, ris n, rishæð f, (informal) hanabjálki m
• Ido: atiko (io)
• Indonesian: loteng (id)
• Irish: áiléar m
• Italian: soffitta (it) f, solaio (it) m
• Japanese: 屋根裏 (やねうら, yaneura)
• Kazakh: шатыр (şatyr)
• Khmer: ស្កាក (km) (skaak)
• Korean: 다락방 (ko) (darakbang)
• Kyrgyz: чердак (cerdak), чатыр (ky) (catır)
• Ladino: mosandara, musandara
• Lao: ຄ່ວນ (khūan)
• Latvian: mansards m
• Lithuanian: palėpė f
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• Macedonian: поткровје n (potkrovje), таван m (tavan)
• Malay: loteng (ms)

  Jawi: لوتيڠ

• Mongolian: дээвэр чердак (deever čerdak)
• Norman: mansarde f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: loft (no) n

  Nynorsk: loft n

• Old East Slavic: чердакъ m (čerdakŭ), чардакъ m (čardakŭ)
• Ottoman Turkish: طوان (tavan)
• Persian: زیرشیروانی (zir-(e)-širvâni)
• Plautdietsch: Bowabän m
• Polish: strych (pl) m, poddasze (pl) n, mansarda (pl) f
• Portuguese: sótão (pt) m
• Romanian: pod (ro), mansardă (ro)
• Russian: черда́к (ru) m (čerdák), манса́рда (ru) f (mansárda)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-mullaich m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та̀ван m, поткровље n, поткровница f, мансарда f

  Roman: tàvan (sh) m, potkrovlje (sh) n, potkrovnica (sh) f, mansarda (sh) f, najže n (Croatia)

• Slovak: podkrovie n, manzarda f
• Slovene: podstrešje (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: najśpa f

• Spanish: buhardilla (es) f, desván (es) m, zaquizamí (es) m, sobrado (es) m, covacha f
• Sudovian: riklas m
• Swedish: vind (sv) c
• Tajik: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: అటక (te) (aṭaka)
• Thai: ห้องใต้หลังคา (hɔ̂ng-dtâi-lǎng-kaa), ห้องเพดาน (hɔ̂ng-pee-daan)
• Turkish: tavanarası (tr), çatı katı (tr)
• Turkmen: üçek
• Ukrainian: гори́ще (uk) n (horýšče), манса́рда f (mansárda), стрих m (stryx), а́ттик m (áttyk)
• Urdu: اٹاری (ur) f (aṭārī)
• Uzbek: cherdak (uz), mansarda
• Venetian: solèr (vec) m
• Vietnamese: gác (vi), gác xép (vi)
• Volapük: nufalucem (vo), masadacem (vo)
• Walloon: gurnî (wa) m
• Welsh: taflod f

Anagrams

• Catti, tacit, ticat