English

escape room

From escape + room.

A compound of escape + room

Late Latin cappa ‘cape, cloak’

Vulgar Latin *excappāre ‘to escape a garment’

Old Northern French escaper

Middle English escapen

Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- ‘to root’

Proto-Germanic *rūmą

Proto-West Germanic *rūm

Old English rūm ‘room’

Middle English roum ‘room’

English room

Today it means

noun A room containing various puzzles and riddles that players must solve in order to escape.

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

Etymograph / escape room