appartamento Italian · revision 38101

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1538, Paolo Giovio|origins=la pars}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ap.par.taˈmen.to/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''appartamento''' ''m'' (plural appartamenti)^(Wiktionary)

+ The first record has the form ''apartamento'', with a single ⟨p⟩.^(DELI 1999)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|osp|apartamiento|t=secluded place]], a noun formed on [[m|osp|apartar|t=to set apart]] and [[m|osp|aparte|t=apart]], and was adapted to the Italian verb [[appartare]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Wiktionary) GRADIT dates the Spanish word to 1493–1495.^(GRADIT 2003) The Spanish words go back to [[la|pars|t=part]], the source of [[parte]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(REW 1935)

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+ Italian passed the word on as [[fr|appartement]] (1559), and modern Spanish borrowed it back as [[es|apartamento]].^(REW 1935)^(DIFIT)^(Wiktionary) The GDLI notes that the Italian word appears in the 16th century together with that verb.^(GDLI|1, 554)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is Paolo Giovio in 1538, with the form ''apartamento'' and the sense “the set of rooms that form a dwelling”.^(DELI 1999)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 16th century the word was used for a group of rooms reserved for one person or one use within a great house or palace: Vasari writes of halls and rooms below that make up an ''appartamento'' for the summer.^(GDLI|1, 554)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) Torquato Tasso remarked that French houses had no suite of rooms in a convenient ''forma d'appartamento''.^(GDLI|1, 554) The word then came to mean a dwelling within a larger building, the ordinary sense today, and in luxury hotels a suite.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ In royal palaces ''gli appartamenti'' are the private rooms of a member of the family, and ''ritirarsi nei propri appartamenti'' is used jokingly of anyone who withdraws.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Treccani 2011) In French ''appartement'' also meant a court reception from 1851 to 1862.^(DIFIT)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1493–1495 – Spanish ''apartamiento'' is recorded.^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1538 – Paolo Giovio uses ''apartamento''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1559 – French ''appartement'' is first recorded.^(DIFIT)

+ * 16th century – Vasari and Tasso use ''appartamento'' for a suite of rooms.^(GDLI|1, 554)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|flat]], [[m|en|apartment]]: a dwelling of several rooms within a larger building: ''Hanno comprato un appartamento al terzo piano.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # In a hotel, a [[m|en|suite]] of rooms.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020)

+ # In a royal or princely palace, the private rooms of one member of the family: ''gli appartamenti della regina''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[appartamentino]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[parte]]

+ * [[appartare]]

+ * [[es|apartamento]]

+ * [[fr|appartement]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Pianta da appartamento'' is a houseplant, and ''topo d'appartamento'' (literally “flat mouse”) a burglar.^(GRADIT 2003) Old Neapolitan had an unrelated noun ''appardamiento'', from ''appartare'', meaning “withdrawing (to be alone)”, in the 14th-century ''Destructione de Troya''.^(TLIO) A nautical ''appartamento'', the distance a ship makes east or west on a course oblique to the meridians, also comes from Spanish ''apartamiento'' in the sense “moving away”.^(Treccani 2011)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}