property: [13] Property and propriety [15] are doublets – that is to say, they have the same ancestor, but have diverged over the centuries. In this case the ancestor was Latin prōprietās ‘ownership’, a derivative of prōprius (from which English gets proper). It passed into Old French as propriete, which originally reached English via Anglo-Norman proprete as property, and was subsequently reborrowed direct from Old French as propriety (this to begin with denoted ‘property’, and did not begin to develop its present-day meaning until the 17th century). Proprietary [15] came from the late Latin derivative prōprietārius; and proprietor [17] was formed from proprietary by substituting the suffix -or for -ary. => proper, proprietary, propriety
property (n.)
c. 1300, properte, "nature, quality," later "possession, thing owned" (early 14c., a sense rare before 17c.), from an Anglo-French modification of Old French propriete "individuality, peculiarity; property" (12c., Modern French propreté; see propriety), from Latin proprietatem (nominative proprietas) "ownership, a property, propriety, quality," literally "special character" (a loan-translation of Greek idioma), noun of quality from proprius "one's own, special" (see proper). For "possessions, private property" Middle English sometimes used proper goods. Hot property "sensation, a success" is from 1947 in "Billboard" stories.
双语例句
1. You have to take capital appreciation of the property into account.
你必须将该处房产的资本增值考虑在内。
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2. Any property which does not sell within six weeks is overpriced.
任何房产如果6周内还卖不出去就说明定价过高。
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3. He bought an investment property for $100,000 and put down $20,000.
他以10万美元买下一处投资性地产，并支付了2万美元的定金。
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4. Why should they get first call on the best property?
凭什么最好的房产尽着他们先挑？
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5. Although people sometimes buy property sight unseen, it'sa remarkably bad idea.
