tenement

See also: tènement

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin verb teneo.

Noun

tenement (plural tenements)

A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
(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.
(figuratively) 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)

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)

Irish: tionóntán m
Russian: арендованное иму́щество n (arendovannoje imúščestvo)

References

tenement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Old French

Etymology

Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin verb teneō. See the verb tenir.

Noun

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

holding (of land)

Descendants

English: tenement (borrowed)

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