condominium

From Latin condominium.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒn.dəˈmɪn.ɪ.əm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑn.dəˈmɪn.i.əm/
• Hyphenation: con‧do‧min‧i‧um

condominium (plural condominiums or condominia)

1. (international law) 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.]

   Synonym: condo building

   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.

      Synonym: condo

   3. The legal tenure involved.

• (US, Canada, building, unit, title): strata

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɔ.mi.njɔm/

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condominium m (plural condominiums)

1. condominium (all senses)

• “condominium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

con- +‎ dominium

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔn.dɔˈmɪ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̪.d̪oˈmiː.ni.um]

condominium n (genitive condominiī or condominī); second declension

1. condominium, joint sovereignty

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• Galician: Condomiña (place name)

condominium n (plural condominiumuri)

1. obsolete form of condominiu

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