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| | penthouse. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Alteration of Middle English pentis, pentace, a shed attached to a wall of a building, from Anglo-Norman pentiz, penthouses, from Old French apentiz, penthouse, from apent, past participle of apendre, to belong, depend, from Medieval Latin appendere, from Latin, to hang, suspend. |
 | | The word penthouse goes back to Latin appendere, to cause to be suspended. In Medieval Latin appendere developed the sense to belong, depend, a sense that passed into apendre, the Old French development of appendere. |
 | | Penthouse then came to mean an apartment built on a rooftop and finally the top floor of an apartment building. |
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