English
spime
Coined by Bruce Sterling in 2004, as a blend of space + time.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- ‘to stretch’
Latin spatium ‘space’
Old French espace ‘space’
Anglo-Norman space
Middle English space
English space
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- ‘to divide’
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Proto-Germanic *tīmô ‘division, period; time’
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma ‘time, period’
Middle English tyme
English time
The story
Coined by Bruce Sterling in 2004, as a blend of space + time.
Today it means
noun An object that could be remotely tracked through space and time.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “spime”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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