The story
- Latin · derived fromintervallum“space between, interval, distance, interval of time, pause, difference; literally, space between two palisades or walls”
- Old French · derived fromintervalle
- Middle English · inherited frominterval
- English todayinterval
From Middle English interval, intervalle, from Old French intervalle, entreval, from Latin intervallum (“space between, interval, distance, interval of time, pause, difference; literally, space between two palisades or walls”), from inter (“between”) + vallum (“palisade, wall”).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.