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 (Attikós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈætɪk/, [ˈæɾɪk]

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• Rhymes: -ætɪk

attic (plural attics)

1. The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

   Synonyms: loft, garret

   We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.

2. (slang) A person's head or brain.

   Synonym: upper storey

   • 1875, John Wight, Mornings at Bow Street, page 105:

     […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.

• atelier (artist or artisan's space, sometimes in an attic (loft))

• Catti, tacit, ticat

attic m or n (feminine singular attică, masculine plural attici, feminine and neuter plural attice)

1. Obsolete form of atic.

• attic in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN