spatium

From Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to stretch, to pull”). Some make this cognate with Latin pēnūria, Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō), πένομαι (pénomai), πένης (pénēs), πόνος (pónos), πεῖνα (peîna), σπάνις (spánis), English span.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspa.ti.um/, [ˈspa.ti.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspa.t͡si.um/, [ˈspaː.t͡si.um]

spatium n (genitive spatiī); second declension

1. Space, room, extent
2. Distance between points
3. A square, walk, or promenade
4. Racetrack, lap or a race, or racecourse
5. Period or interval of time
6. Quantity of length
7. Time or leisure, as with opportunity

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• spatiolum
• spatior

• spatium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spatium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spatium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• spatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
    
  • to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri
    
  • to require, give, take time for deliberation: tempus (spatium) deliberandi or ad deliberandum postulare, dare, sibi sumere
    
  • to give some one a few days for reflection: paucorum dierum spatium ad deliberandum dare
    
  • after some time: spatio temporis intermisso
    
  • to give time for recovery: respirandi spatium dare
    
• spatium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016