penthouse

詳細解釋：

pent.house

n.（名詞）

An apartment or dwelling situated on the roof of a building.
屋頂公寓，頂樓：位於建築物屋頂層的房子或住處
A residence, often with a terrace, on the top floor or floors of a building.
高級住房：常在建築物頂層或最高几層的帶有陽台的住宅
A structure housing machinery on the roof of a building.
機房：建築物頂部用以覆蓋機器的結構
A shed or sloping roof attached to the side of a building or wall.
斜棚：附著在建築物邊緣或牆上的棚或斜頂
Sports The sloping roof that rises from the inner wall to the outer wall surrounding three sides of the court in court tennis, off which the ball is served.
【體育運動】 遮棚：圍繞網球場三側用以擋球的由外牆斜向內牆的傾斜屋頂

來源：
Alteration of Middle English pentis, pentace [a shed attached to a wall of a building]
中古英文 pentis的變化, pentace [附著在建築物牆上的棚]
from Anglo-Norman pentiz [penthouses]
源自 英法文 pentiz [頂樓]
from Old French apentiz [penthouse]
源自 古法文 apentiz [樓頂房間]
from apent [past participle of] apendre [to belong, depend]
源自 apent [] apendre的過去分詞 [屬於，依靠]
from Medieval Latin appendere
源自 中世紀拉丁語 appendere
from Latin [to hang, suspend] * see append
源自 拉丁語 [懸掛，懸浮] *參見 append

<注釋>The wordpenthouse and the structure it denotes have both come a long way. The word goes back to Latinappendere, .to cause to be suspended..In Medieval Latinappendere developed the sense .to belong, depend,. a sense that passed intoapendre, the Old French development ofappendere. Fromapent, the past participle of apendre, came the derivative apentiz, .low building behind or beside a house,. and the Anglo-Norman plural form pentiz. The form without thea- was then borrowed into Middle English, giving uspentis (first recorded about 300), which was applied to sheds or lean-tos added on to buildings.Because these structures often had sloping roofs,the word was connected with the French wordpente, .slope,. and the second part of the word changed tohouse, which could mean simply .a building for human use..The use of the term with reference to fancy penthouse apartments developed from the application of the word to a structure built on the roof to cover such things as a stairway or an elevator shaft.Penthouse then came to mean an apartment built on a rooftop and finally the top floor of an apartment building.
單詞penthouse 及其所代表的結構都經過了長期的演變。 此詞可追溯至拉丁語appendere ， 意為.使懸浮.。在中世紀拉丁語中，appendere 的意思演變為.附屬，依靠.， 是詞形變為apendre 的意義， 由古法文appendere 發展而來。 從apendre 的過去分詞 apent 產生出意為.房屋旁邊或後面低矮的建築.的派生詞 apentiz 及盎格魯-諾爾曼複數形式 pentiz 。 沒有a- 的形式被借用到中世紀英文， 變成pentis （首次記載於300年）， 用作加在建築上的小棚或單傾斜面的小屋。因為這些結構常有斜屋頂，因此該詞與法文詞pente .斜面.有關， 且此詞的第二部分變成house ， 只簡單地意為.住人的建築.。該詞與使人想像樓頂房屋有關的使用源自需要用一個詞來表示建在屋頂上用來遮擋樓梯或電梯通道的建築。Penthouse 於是逐漸意為建在屋頂上的房間， 最終意為一個公寓樓的頂層