476: corridor Mar 28, 2016

The word 'corridor' evolved over time from the original Latin-meaning. In the 1500's the word corridor was the military term for a strip of land along a ditch. from Latin currere ‘to run’ and actually means ‘running place’. The word comes though French, via the Italian, 'corridoio' meaning ‘running place,’ ultimately from the Latin 'currere' meaning 'to run'. The current sense of ‘a long passage in a building’ dates from the early 1800's.