condominium

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin condominium.

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Noun

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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.
    • 2013, Clive H. Church, Randolph C. Head, A Concise History of Switzerland, Cambridge, page 76:
      The strategic location of the condominiums […] made them important for the Confederacy's territorial integrity even if they produced little revenue.
    1. A region or territory under such rule.
  2. (US, Canada, Philippines) A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units each of which is owned separately but whose grounds, structure, etc. (if any) are owned jointly. [from 20th c.]
    1. (US, Canada, Philippines) The system of ownership by which such condominiums operate.
    2. (US, Canada, Philippines) An individual unit (such as an apartment) in such a complex.
    3. The legal tenure involved.

Synonyms

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

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French

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Noun

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condominium m (plural condominiums)

  1. condominium (all senses)

Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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con- +‎ dominium

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Noun

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condominium n (genitive condominiī or condominī); second declension

  1. condominium, joint sovereignty

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Descendants

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  • Galician: Condomiña (place name)

Romanian

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Noun

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condominium n (plural condominiumuri)

  1. Obsolete form of condominiu.

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References

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  • condominium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN