English
letterplace
From letter + place.
Latin littera ‘letter of the alphabet; (plural) epistle’
Old French letre
Middle English letter
English letter
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- ‘to spread’
Ancient Greek πλατεῖα ‘broad (way); street’
Latin platēa ‘broad way, street; open space’
Old French place ‘place, open space’
Middle English place
English place
Today it means
noun The occurrence of a letter at a specific place; a pair of values that includes one letter and one place.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / letterplace