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space

/sˈpeɪs/SPAYS
/sˈpeɪs/SPAYS

Meaninga stretch, an interval

Common meaning: an empty area

Other meanings: room

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√SPA or SPAN‘draw out, extend, increase’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 436, p. 746 · scan
  2. Frenchespace‘space’source
  3. Middle Englishspacesource
  4. Englishspace‘an empty area’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on French espace ‘a stretch, an interval’.

Roots

  • espace French “a stretch, an interval”

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