From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman - and Old French propreté, proprieté ("propriety, fitness, property"), from Latin proprietās, from proprius ("special, particular, one's own").

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ti/, [ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ɾi], enPR: prŏʹpərdē

property

1. Something that is owned.

   Leave those books alone! They are my property.

   Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).

2. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

   There is a large house on the property.

   Synonyms: land, parcel

3. (British) Real estate; the business of selling houses.

   He works in property as a housing consultant.

4. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
5. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.

   Charm is his most endearing property.

6. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.

   Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.

7. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class.

   You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".

8. (usually, in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.

   Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.

   Synonyms: prop

9. (US) A script, book, screenplay or the like that is on the market or has been bought for commercial production as a stage play, movie or the like.
   1. (US, by extension, rare) A produced stage play, movie or the like.
      • 1961, Darren McGavin, quoted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onJF43xXG2o?t=1331:

        Is the property in which you are playing currently on Broadway – is it a musical?

10. (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
    • 1625, William Camden, translated by Abraham Darcie/Darcy, Annales Or, The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth Late Queen of England:

      it is well knowne that I have the property to keepe counsaile

• (something owned) See Thesaurus:property
• (attribute or abstract quality of an object) See Thesaurus:characteristic

• proper
• proprietary
• proprietor

• French: propriété
• German: Eigentum, Besitz
• Italian: proprietà, beni
• Portuguese: propriedade, bem, imóvel
• Russian: иму́щество
• Spanish: propiedad, posesión, inmueble, bien

• French: propriété
• German: Anwesen, Grundbesitz, Grundstück
• Italian: proprietà, possesso, beni immobili
• Portuguese: propriedade
• Russian: недви́жимость
• Spanish: propiedad, finca, bienes, posesión, heredad, predio

• French: propriété
• German: Eigentum
• Italian: proprietà, possesso, possidenza
• Portuguese: possessão
• Russian: со́бственность
• Spanish: pertenecia

• French: propriété
• German: Eigenschaft
• Italian: proprietà, qualità
• Portuguese: propriedade, qualidade
• Russian: сво́йство
• Spanish: propiedad, cualidad

• French: propriété
• German: Eigenschaft
• Italian: proprietà
• Portuguese: propriedade, qualidade
• Russian: сво́йство
• Spanish: propiedad

• German: Eigenschaft
• Portuguese: propriedade
• Russian: сво́йство

• French: accessoire
• German: Requisit
• Portuguese: acessório

property (properties, present participle propertying; simple past and past participle propertied)

1. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene ii]:

     His voyce was propertied
     As all the tuned Spheres, and that to Friends

2. (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:
     I am too high-born to be propertied,
     To be a secondary at control,
     Or useful serving-man and instrument,
     To any sovereign state throughout the world.