appurtenance

• appurtenaunce (obsolete)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman apurtenance, from Old French apartenance, from apartenir, from Latin appertineō (“I belong, I appertain”). More at appertain.

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appurtenance (plural appurtenances)

1. An appendage to something else.
2. (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
3. The thing to which another pertains.
4. (law) Minor property, such as an outhouse, that passes with the main property when it is sold.
5. (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.

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• appertain