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Spanish
Etymology
Literally, “dinghy/small boat apartment”. Because people live in the apartment just as immigrants come in patera (small boat or dinghy especially used by illegal immigration to cross the Mediterranean Sea), that is, crowded together.
Noun
piso patera f (plural pisos pateras)
- (Spain) an apartment in which many people, especially illegal immigrants, live in cramped conditions
2019 October 23, “Así viven, por 300 euros, en un 'piso patera' de Usera”, in Telemadrid: