DictionaryRoot: apentis
Old French
apentis
attached building, appendage
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noun
penthouse
PENT-house/ˈpenthaʊs/
A luxury apartment on the top floor of a building.
Etymology
The ancestral word meant an attached building, such as a shed with a projecting roof. Its later use for a dwelling built on a building's roof brought the modern association with luxury.