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.
4. (heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.

Translations

chamber

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

  Mandarin: 車廂, 车厢 (zh) (chēxiāng), 包房 (zh) (bāofáng)

• Czech: oddělení (cs) n, (on a train) kupé n
• Esperanto: kompartimento
• Finnish: osasto (fi), aitio (fi), loosi (fi), kammio (fi)
• French: compartiment (fr) m
• German: Abteil (de) n
• Hindi: डिब्बा m (ḍibbā)
• Hungarian: fülke (hu)

• Japanese: コンパートメント (konpātomento), 仕切り (しきり, shikiri), 区画 (ja) (くかく, kukaku)
• Norwegian: kupé (no) m
• Persian: کوپه (fa) (kupe)
• Portuguese: compartimento (pt) m
• Romanian: compartiment (ro) n
• Russian: отделение (ru) n (otdelénije), отсек (ru) m (otsék), купе (ru) n (kupé) (in a train)
• Spanish: compartimiento (es) m
• Swedish: avdelning (sv) c

part into which an area is subdivided

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

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

mound beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand

• Dutch: ondergrond (nl)
• French: terrasse (fr)
• German: Postament (de)

• Italian: terrazza (it), zoccolo (it)
• Spanish: terraza (es)