condominium

From Latin condominium.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒn.dəˈmɪn.ɪ.əm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑn.dəˈmɪn.i.əm/
• Hyphenation: con‧do‧min‧i‧um

condominium (plural condominiums or condominia)

1. 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.

2. A region or territory under such rule.
   • 2013, Clive H. Church & Randolph C. Head, A Concise History of Switzerland, Cambridge 2013, p. 76:

     The strategic location of the condominiums […]made them important for the Confederacy's territorial integrity even if they produced little revenue.

3. (US, Canada) A building in which each unit is owned by an individual but the grounds, structure etc are owned jointly. [from 20th c.]
4. (US, Canada) the system of ownership by which such condominiums operate
5. (US, Canada) A unit or apartment in such a complex.
6. The legal tenure involved.

• (US, Canada, building): condo building
• (US, Canada, building, unite, title): strata
• (US, Canada, unit): condo (abbreviation)

• (US, Canada, unit): condo (abbreviation)

condominium m (plural condominiums)

1. condominium (all senses)

con- +‎ dominium

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.doˈmi.ni.um/, [kɔn.dɔˈmɪ.ni.ʊ̃]

condominium n (genitive condominiī or condominī); second declension

1. condominium, joint sovereignty

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Galician: Condomiña (place name)