Etymograph

English

leafspace

From leaf + space.

A compound of leaf + space

Proto-Germanic *laubą

Proto-West Germanic *laub

Old English lēaf

Middle English lef ‘Foliage’

English leaf

Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- ‘to stretch’

Latin spatium ‘space’

Old French espace ‘space’

Anglo-Norman space

Middle English space

English space

Today it means

noun A topological space that is the quotient of a laminated or foliated manifold by identification of each leaf, and each closed complementary region, to a point.

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Etymograph / leafspace