condominium
condominium Lexical Profile
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• noun
North American A building or residential complex containing a number of individually owned apartments or houses, or an individual unit within such a building where common areas and facilities are jointly owned and maintained.
"After years of renting, they purchased a two-bedroom condominium overlooking the harbor."
The joint control or sovereignty exercised over a territory by two or more states or nations, or a territory governed under such shared rule.
"For much of the twentieth century, the Pacific archipelago of the New Hebrides was administered as an Anglo-French condominium."
Word Nuance & Usage
While an apartment and a condominium may look identical physically, 'condominium' denotes individual legal ownership of a residential unit rather than a rental arrangement.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 18th century from Modern Latin condominium ('joint rule or sovereignty'), formed from Latin com- ('together') and dominium ('lordship, property, right of ownership'). Its real-estate sense referring to individually owned units in a shared building emerged in North America in the early 1960s.