English
spatial
Spatial comes from Latin spatium ‘space, room, extent’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatium‘space, room, extent’
- Englishearliest quotation 1879spatial
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatium‘space, room, extent’
- Englishearliest quotation 1879spatial
Earliest quotation: 1879, William James, The Spatial Quale: “In the one case these are spatial, in the…”
Formed from -al
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- ‘to prosper, succeed’
speed, desperate, spare, despair, prosper, desperation, esperanza, desperado, esperance, 5 more
through Latin spatium ‘space, room, extent’
Today it means
adj Pertaining to (the dimension of) space.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin spatium / spatial