Other forms: attics
The attic is the room at the very top of a house, under the roof. Boxes, a water tank, and things nobody has opened in years.
British English says loft as often as attic, and the two are interchangeable for most people, though a converted one is usually called a loft conversion. The sloping ceiling and the hatch in the landing are what define it. Fiction loves the attic, and the mad relative or the forgotten trunk in one is close to a cliché. The word comes from Attica in Greece, by way of a style of architecture.
1nounatticA space or room directly under the roof of a house.
“The suitcases are up in the attic.”
Also accepted in games: loft
Ancient Greek
Ἀττικός
Latin
atticus
French
attique
English, today
attic
From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA