Other forms: properties
Property is land and buildings owned, or anything you own. Buy a property, personal property, the property market.
In law it divides into real property, meaning land and what is fixed to it, and personal property, meaning everything else — and the distinction decides how each is transferred and taxed. Property also means a characteristic, as in the properties of a metal.
1nounpropertyLand and buildings owned, or anything you own.
“They sold their property in the city and bought a small farm.”
2nounqualityA quality that a substance or a thing has, such as its hardness or its colour.
“One property of copper is that it carries electricity well.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
Old French proprieté comes from Latin proprietas, ownership, from proprius, one's own.
Latin
proprietās — a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property
Old French
propreté
Middle English
propertee
English, today
property
Built from
From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman - and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietās (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Equivalent to proper + ty. a doublet of propriety.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA