English

letterspace

From letter + space.

A compound of letter + space

Latin littera ‘letter of the alphabet; (plural) epistle’

Old French letre

Middle English letter

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 space as wide as a single text character.

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

Etymograph / letterspace