English
spacious
Spacious comes from Old French spacios ‘vast’, and goes back to Latin spatiōsus ‘spacious, roomy’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatiōsus‘spacious, roomy’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400spacios‘vast’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500spacious
- Englishearliest quotation 2025spacious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatiōsus‘spacious, roomy’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400spacios‘vast’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500spacious
- Englishearliest quotation 2025spacious
Earliest quotation: 2025, Pip Dunn, The future is orange....: “But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about…”
Equivalent to space + -ious
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- ‘to stretch’
Latin spatium ‘space’
Old French espace ‘space’
Anglo-Norman space
Middle English space
English space
Every English word from Latin spatiōsus
Today it means
adj Having plenty of space; roomy; capacious.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin spatiōsus / spacious