The story
- Latin · derived frominterstitium“a space between, gap, interval”
- Old French · derived frominterstice
- Middle English · inherited frominterstice
- English todayinterstice
From late Middle English interstice, from Old French interstice or directly from Latin interstitium (“a space between, gap, interval”), ultimately from intersistere (“to stand in between, to stop in the middle”), from inter- + sistere (“to stand, to stop”).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.