apartamento

From French appartement, Italian appartamento, Spanish/Portuguese apartamento; compare Italian appartare (“to separate, set apart”), from Latin ad + pars (“part”) + -amentum.

• IPA^(key): /apartaˈmento/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧par‧ta‧men‧to

apartamento (accusative singular apartamenton, plural apartamentoj, accusative plural apartamentojn)

1. apartment, flat

   Synonym: ĉambraro

< Spanish apartamento

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpɑrtɑmento/, [ˈɑ̝pɑ̝rt̪ɑ̝ˌme̞n̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification^(key): a‧par‧ta‧men‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): apar‧ta‧men‧to

apartamento

1. apartment, especially one in Spain

Borrowed from English apartment, French appartement, German Appartement, Italian appartamento, Russian апартаме́нт (apartamént), Spanish apartamento.

• IPA^(key): /apartaˈmento/

apartamento (plural apartamenti)

1. apartment, flat

• apartamentano (“roommate, flatmate”)

• apto. (abbreviation)

Borrowed from Italian appartamento, possibly through French appartement and/or Spanish apartamento. Ultimately from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”), from apartar (“to separate”). By surface analysis, apartar +‎ -mento.

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)); [ɐ.pɐɾ.tɐˈmjẽⁿ.tu]:

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• Hyphenation: a‧par‧ta‧men‧to

apartamento m (plural apartamentos)

1. flat, apartment

• apê

• “apartamento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “apartamento”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “apartamento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento.

• IPA^(key): /apaɾtaˈmento/ [a.paɾ.t̪aˈmẽn̪.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧par‧ta‧men‧to

apartamento m (plural apartamentos)

1. flat, apartment

   Synonyms: (Spain) piso, (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) departamento, (rare or dialectal) apartamiento

• “apartamento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish apartamento, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). Doublet of apartment.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔapaɾtaˈmento/ [ʔɐ.pɐɾ.t̪ɐˈmɛn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧par‧ta‧men‧to

apartamento (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜉᜇ᜔ᜆᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. apartment (domicile occupying part of a building)

   Synonyms: bahay-paupahan, apartment, aksesorya, posesyon

• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 42