Etymology

spacy

S1P3A1C3Y4

Today it means: spaced-out 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 todayspacy

From space + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.