Via
/ˈviː.ə/noun
A road, route, or means of reaching a place or result.
Did you know?Via comes from Latin *via* “road,” and it helped generate a huge family of travel words in English, from *deviate* to *obvious*, all built on the idea of movement along a way.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*wegh-
“to go, move, transport”
Latin
Latin
via
“road, way, path”
Late Latin
Latin
via
“route, means, course”
Middle English
English
via
“by way of, through”
Modern English
English
via
“by way of; through”