Dimension
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late Middle English (in dimension (sense 1 of the noun)): via Old French from Latin dimensio(n- ), from dimetiri ‘measure out’. dimension (sense 2 of the noun) dates from the 1920s.
wiktionary
From Latin dīmensio, dīmensiōnis.
etymonline
dimension (n.)
late 14c., dimensioun, "measurable extent, magnitude measured along a diameter," from Latin dimensionem (nominative dimensio) "a measuring," noun of action from past-participle stem of dimetri "to measure out," from dis- (see dis-) + metiri "to measure," from PIE root *me- (2) "to measure."
Sense of "bulk, size, extent, or capacity" is from 1520s, Meaning "any component of a situation" is from 1929. Related: Dimensional; dimensions.
