英语词汇penthouse的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	penthouse
词源	penthouse. Over the years folk etymology made penthouse out of pentice, the former word sounding more familiar to En- glish ears even if pentice was correct. The pentice was a kind of “lean-to” attached to another building, usually a church, the word akin to “appendix.” It took several centuries for penthouse, first recorded in early 1500s, to become the luxurious separate apartment or dwelling on a roof of a building that it generally is today.
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