English
namespacenamespace
From name + space.
A compound of name + space
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ ‘name’
Proto-Germanic *namô ‘name’
Proto-West Germanic *namō ‘name’
Old English nama ‘name’
Middle English name
English name
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 conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. in order to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that carry the same names.
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