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tenementary

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ten⋅e⋅ment

  [ten-uh-muhnt]
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–noun
1. Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, esp. in a poor section of a large city.
2. Law.
a. any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.
b. tenements, freehold interests in things immovable considered as subjects of property.
3. British. an apartment or room rented by a tenant.
4. Archaic. any abode or habitation.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < ML tenēmentum, equiv. to L tenē(re) to hold + -mentum -ment

Related forms:
ten⋅e⋅men⋅tal  [ten-uh-men-tl] , ten⋅e⋅men⋅ta⋅ry  [ten-uh-men-tuh-ree] , adjective
ten⋅e⋅ment⋅ed, adjective
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Word Origin & History

tenement 
c.1303, "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings,) from Anglo-Fr. (1292) and O.Fr. tenement (12c.), from M.L. tenementum "a holding, fief" (1081), from L. tenere "to hold" (see tenet). The meaning "dwelling place, residence" is attested from c.1425; tenement house "house broken up into apartments, usually in a poor section of a city" is first recorded 1858, Amer.Eng., from tenament in an earlier sense (esp. in Scotland) "large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants" (1693).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: ten·e·ment
Pronunciation: 'te-n&-m&nt
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin tenEre to hold
1 a : any of various forms of property (as land) that is held by one person from another b : an estate in property
2 : DWELLING
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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