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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 706 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROOM  , originally a word meaning space or

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accommodation; the
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ordinary meaning of an apartment in a
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building, one of the interior divisions of a
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house,
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dates from the 15th
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century . The word is
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common to
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Teutonic
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languages, cf . Du. ruim, Ger . Raum, Swed. and
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Dan.
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rum, with the
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original meaning of space .
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Skeat connects the word with the
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root seen in
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Lat. rus, open
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country .

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