pent·house (p nt hous )n. 1. a. An apartment or dwelling situated on the roof of a building. b. A residence, often with a terrace, on the top floor or floors of a building. c. A structure housing machinery on the roof of a building. 2. A shed or sloping roof attached to the side of a building or wall. 3. Sports The sloping roof that rises from the inner wall to the outer wall surrounding three sides of the court in court tennis, off which the ball is served. [Alteration of Middle English pentis, pentace, a shed attached to a wall of a building, from Anglo-Norman pentiz, penthouses, from Old French apentiz, penthouse, from apent, past participle of apendre, to belong, depend, from Medieval Latin appendere, from Latin, to hang, suspend; see append.] Word History: The word penthouse goes back to Latin appendere, "to cause to be suspended." In Medieval Latin appendere developed the sense "to belong, depend," a sense that passed into apendre, the Old French development of appendere. From apent, the past participle of apendre, came the derivative apentiz, "low building behind or beside a house," and the Anglo-Norman plural form pentiz. The form without the a- was then borrowed into Middle English, giving us pentis (first recorded about 1300), which was applied to sheds or lean-tos added on to buildings. Because these structures often had sloping roofs, the word was connected with the French word pente, "slope," and the second part of the word changed by folk-etymology to house, which could mean simply "a building for human use." The use of the term with reference to fancy apartments developed from its application to a structure built on a roof to cover such things as a stairway or an elevator shaft. Penthouse then came to mean an apartment built on a rooftop and finally the top floor of an apartment building. |
penthouse
Noun
a luxurious flat built on the top floor or roof of a building [Middle English pentis, later penthouse, from Latin appendere to hang from]
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penthouse - an apartment located on the top floors of a building Translations
n penthouse [ˈpenthaus]
a (usually luxurious) flat at the top of a building That apartment building has a beautiful penthouse; (also adjective ) a penthouse flat. dakwoonstel شَقَّة ذات سَقيفَه، شقَّة صَغيرَة مَبنِيَّة على سَطْح عَمارَة سَكَنِيَّه надстройка върху плосък покрив půdní byt penthouse; penthouse- die Dachterrassenwohnung, Dachterrassen... ρετιρέ ático katuseelamu بالاترین طبقه برج kattohuoneisto appartement de terrasse דִירַת גַג इमारत के शीर्ष पर सुंदर फ्लैट luksuzan stan na vrhu nebodera tetőlakás flat di puncak gedung þakíbúð attico 屋上住宅 옥상 가옥 (prabangus) butas pastogėje luksus dzīvoklis augšstāvā emper dakwoning, dak{#169} tak-/toppleilighet luksusowe mieszkanie na dachu apartamento QUERY penthouse, apartament de lux la ultimul etaj фешенебельная квартира в надстройке на крыше небоскрёба byt na streche mansarda; mansarden potkrovlje takvåning บ้านเล็กบนหลังคาตึก çatı katı 樓頂房屋［的］ пентхауз سائبان، برآمدہ tầng mái 楼顶房屋［的］
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