corridor
KOR-ih-dor · noun
Origin
English borrowed "corridor" from French corridor, which came from Italian corridore, meaning "long passage." That Italian word traces back to correre, "to run."
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Journey
The word held onto its Italian sense of a long passage as it moved through French and into English, keeping the same basic meaning of a connecting space.
Related words
It shares its root with the Italian verb correre, "to run" — the same idea of running lies behind the passage's name.