Etymology

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Today it means: An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type. Full definition →

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

  1. Latinspatium
  2. Old Frenchespace
  3. Anglo-Normanspace
  4. Middle Englishspace
  5. Englishspace
  6. English todayspacer

From space + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.