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early 17th century: from wide + -th2, on the pattern of breadth (replacing wideness ).


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wide +‎  -th


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width (n.)

1620s, formed from wide on model of breadth, and replacing wideness (Old English widnes). Johnson (1755) calls it "a low word." Related: Widthwise.