tenement

See also: tènement

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French tenement, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  tenementum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin verb teneo.

Noun

tenement (plural tenements)

1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
2. (law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

   The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.

3. (figurative) Dwelling; abode; habitation.
   • John Locke

     Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?

Synonyms

• (building): tenement house, apartment building

Derived terms

• servient tenement

Translations

a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: huurwoning (nl)
• Finnish: vuokra-asunto (fi), vuokratalo
• French: appartement (fr), logement (fr) m
• German: Mietskaserne (de) f, Wohnungsblock m; (any house for rent) Mietshaus (de) n,
• Greek:

  Ancient: συνοικία f (sunoikía)

• Hungarian: bérház (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: casamento (it) m, condominio (it) m, case popolari f pl, casermone m
• Polish: kamienica czynszowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: cortiço (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: casa de vecindad f, vecindad (es) f, bloque de viviendas m, inquilinato, (Peru) solar (es) m, conventillo (es) m

any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned

• Dutch: verpachting
• Hungarian: bérlet (hu), bérlemény (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: tionóntán m
• Russian: арендованное иму́щество n (arendovannoje imúščestvo)

See also

• rooming house

References

• “tenement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Old French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl]  tenementum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin verb teneō. See the verb tenir.

Noun

tenement oblique singular, m (oblique plural tenemenz or tenementz, nominative singular tenemenz or tenementz, nominative plural tenement)

1. holding (of land)

Descendants

• → English: tenement