means A room or building where an artist, photographer, musician, broadcaster, or filmmaker works — or a small one-room apartment that's basically all room.

from From Italian 'studio,' meaning 'study' or 'a room for study,' which descends from Latin 'studium' — zeal, eagerness, painstaking application. The same root gives us 'study' itself. The word arrived in English in the 19th century, first for the working spaces of painters and sculptors, then spreading to photography, film, radio, and eventually any cramped flat an estate agent wanted to flatter.