Etymology

hyperspace

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Today it means: An n-dimensional Euclidian space with n > 3. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Hellenic*hupér
  4. Ancient Greekῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
  5. Ancient Greekῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)
  6. Englishhyper-
  7. Latinspatium
  8. Old Frenchespace
  9. Anglo-Normanspace
  10. Middle Englishspace
  11. Englishspace
  12. English todayhyperspace

From hyper- + space.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.