Etymology

battlespace

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Today it means: The conditions and dimensions of battle, including terrain, weather, infrastructure, airspace, seaspace, cyberspace, near space, and outer space, considered in a unified military strategy to integrate and combine armed forces for the military theatre of operations. Full definition →

English space ← Middle English space ← Anglo-Norman space
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-
  2. Latinbattuō
  3. Late Latinbattālia
  4. Old Frenchbataille
  5. Middle Englishbatayle
  6. Englishbattle
  7. Latinspatium
  8. Old Frenchespace
  9. Anglo-Normanspace
  10. Middle Englishspace
  11. Englishspace
  12. English todaybattlespace

From battle + space.

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