spatium

Latin

spatium on Latin Wikipedia

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁-to- (“extended”), an extension of *speh₁- (“to prosper, succeed”).^[1]

An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”), and compares with Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō), Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē), Ancient Greek σπάνις (spánis), English span.

spatium n (genitive spatiī or spatī); second declension

space, room, extent
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.683–684:
  gentibus est aliīs tellūs data līmite certō:
  Rōmānae spatium est urbis et orbis īdem.
  To other nations, land has been allotted with a certain limit.
  The extent of the Roman city and of the world is the same.
  Or, in more natural English:
  Though other nations have been granted land with a border,
  the city of Rome's extent equals that of the world.
distance between points
a square, walk, or promenade
racetrack, lap or a race, or racecourse
period or interval of time
Synonym: intervallum
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.7:
  Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.
  Yet, in order that a period might intervene, until the soldiers whom he had ordered [to be furnished] should assemble, he replied to the ambassadors, that he would take time to deliberate; if they wanted any thing, they might return on the day before the ides of April.
quantity of length
time or leisure, as with opportunity

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Catalan: espai
→ Dutch: spatie
- → Indonesian: spasi
→ Old French: espace
- → English: space
- Middle French: espace
  - French: espace
- → Irish: spás
Galician: espazo
→ German: Spatium
→ Hungarian: spácium
Italian: spazio, spazzo
Occitan: espaci
Portuguese: espaço
Romanian: spațiu, spaț
Sicilian: spazziu
Spanish: espacio
→ Welsh: ysbaid

“spatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“spatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
spatium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
spatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
- to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri
- to require, give, take time for deliberation: tempus (spatium) deliberandi or ad deliberandum postulare, dare, sibi sumere
- to give some one a few days for reflection: paucorum dierum spatium ad deliberandum dare
- after some time: spatio temporis intermisso
- to give time for recovery: respirandi spatium dare
spatium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 578

From Latin spatium (“space, distance”).

spatium n (definite singular spatiet, indefinite plural spatier, definite plural spatia or spatiene)

From Latin spatium (“space, distance”), whence also English space.

spatium n (definite singular spatiet, indefinite plural spatium, definite plural spatia)