Other forms: studios
A studio is a tiny flat where one room is bedroom, kitchen and living room at once. A studio flat, rent a studio, live in a studio.
It is the smallest self-contained dwelling, with only the bathroom separate, and studio flat is the British estate agent's term. The word also names an artist's workroom, a recording studio and a film company. Note that studio comes from the Italian for a room for study, from the same Latin as the English study — so all these rooms are one word.
1nounflatA tiny flat with one main room.
“The studio is about twenty-four square metres.”
2nounworkroomA workroom for an artist or a recording.
“The painter spends every morning in her studio at the top of the house.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
studio is a room or dwelling.
Also accepted in games: studio apartment
Italian studio means a room for study, from Latin studium, zeal or application. Study, student and étude come from the same application.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)tewd-
Latin
studium
Italian
studio — room for study
English, today
studio
From Italian studio (“room for study”), from Latin studium. a doublet of study and etude.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA