condominium
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin condominium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒn.dəˈmɪn.ɪ.əm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /kɑn.dəˈmɪn.i.əm/
- Hyphenation: con‧do‧min‧i‧um
Noun
[edit]condominium (plural condominiums or condominia)
- (international law) Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries. [from 18th c.]
- The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was a condominium ruled jointly by Egypt and the United Kingdom.
- 2013, Clive H. Church, Randolph C. Head, A Concise History of Switzerland, Cambridge, page 76:
- The strategic location of the condominiums […] made them important for the Confederacy's territorial integrity even if they produced little revenue.
- A region or territory under such rule.
- (US, Canada, Philippines) A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units each of which is owned separately but whose grounds, structure, etc. (if any) are owned jointly. [from 20th c.]
- Synonym: condo building
- (US, Canada, Philippines) The system of ownership by which such condominiums operate.
- (US, Canada, Philippines) An individual unit (such as an apartment) in such a complex.
- Synonym: condo
- The legal tenure involved.
Synonyms
[edit]- (US, Canada, building, unit, title): strata
Derived terms
[edit]- barndominium
- condo-hotel
- condop
- dockominium
- noncondominium
- quadrominium
- tridominium
- (US, Canada, Philippines, unit): condo (abbreviation)
Translations
[edit]joint sovereignty over a territory
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building in which each unit is owned by an individual, but the grounds is owned jointly
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the system of ownership by which such condominiums operate
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unit or apartment in such a complex
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]condominium m (plural condominiums)
- condominium (all senses)
Further reading
[edit]- “condominium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kon.doˈmi.ni.um/, [kɔn̪d̪ɔˈmɪniʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.doˈmi.ni.um/, [kon̪d̪oˈmiːnium]
Noun
[edit]condominium n (genitive condominiī or condominī); second declension
- condominium, joint sovereignty
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | condominium | condominia |
genitive | condominiī condominī1 |
condominiōrum |
dative | condominiō | condominiīs |
accusative | condominium | condominia |
ablative | condominiō | condominiīs |
vocative | condominium | condominia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Galician: Condomiña (place name)
Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]condominium n (plural condominiumuri)
- Obsolete form of condominiu.
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | condominium | condominiumul | condominiumuri | condominiumurile | |
genitive-dative | condominium | condominiumului | condominiumuri | condominiumurilor | |
vocative | condominiumule | condominiumurilor |
References
[edit]- condominium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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