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The English word patio, coined in 1818, meaning "open court to the sky" derived from the Spanish wordpatio, which "probably" came from the O.Prov. wordpatu, pati, meaning "untilled land, communal pasture", which derived from the Latin word pactum, meaning "agreement".

ANOTHER THEORY traces the Spanish word to the Latin word patere, meaning" to lie open".

THE MEANING OF "paved and enclosed terrace beside a building" was first attested in 1941, patio furniturearriving in 1969.

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