Appurtenance
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
- appurtenaunce obsolete
Origin
From Anglo-Norman apurtenance, from Old French apartenance, from apertenir, from Latin appertineÅ ("I belong, I appertain").
Cognate to appertain.
Full definition of appurtenance
Noun
appurtenance
(plural appurtenances)- An appendage added to something else.
- (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
- The thing to which another pertains.
- (legal) Minor property (such as an outhouse) that passes with the main property when it is sold.
- (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.