Roomed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have been accommodated in a designated space for living or working
2. To have provided or arranged space for someone or something to stay
3. To have been assigned to a particular setting or area for various activities

Etymology: "Roomed" is simply the past tense and past participle of "room," so its history is the history of the verb's root, and the surprising part lies there. "Room" comes from Old English "rūm," meaning space or open area, which goes back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to tear out or open, the same root that gave Latin "rūs," meaning country or open fields. The sense of "room" as an unfilled space is therefore a reflection of ground that has been cleared or opened up. The "room" in "roomed" takes on the meaning of a living space only in its later development, when a space set aside for a person became the meaning of the word. Sharing a room, the sense this verb carries, follows naturally from that idea of a bounded interior space that several people might occupy together. The verb form is an ordinary English extension of the noun, as in "housed" or "lodged," with no separate history of its own.

Synonyms: accommodated, housed, lodged, sheltered, quartered