English

marketspace

From market + space, modelled on marketplace.

A compound of market + space

Proto-Italic *merks

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Latin mercor ‘to trade’

Latin mercātus ‘trade’

Old English market

Middle English market ‘a market’

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 virtual marketplace on the Internet.

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

Etymograph / marketspace