Etymograph

English

Local Volume

From local + volume from being the volume of space in which we exist (that which is local to us).

A compound of local + volume

Old Latin stlocus

Latin locus ‘a place’

Late Latin locālis ‘belonging to a place’

Middle English local

English local

Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to roll’

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Proto-Italic *welūmən

Latin volūmen ‘book, roll, scroll’

Old French volume ‘volume’

Middle English volume

English volume

Today it means

name the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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