Espacio
/esˈpa.sjo/noun
A space, area, or extent; in Spanish, also room or opportunity.
Did you know?Spanish espacio comes from Latin spatium, a word for both physical space and a stretch of time, which is why its ancient family includes ideas of expansion, distance, and interval.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*spē-
“To stretch out, expand, or be drawn out”
Latin
Latin
spatium
“A space, distance, interval of time, or period”
Vulgar Latin
VL
espatium
“A spoken-form development of Latin spatium”
Old Spanish
Old Spanish
espacio
“Space, room, extent, or interval”
Modern Spanish
Spanish
espacio
“Space, room, area, or opportunity”