community-wide

The word is a modern English compound adjective, formed by directly combining two established English words. "Community" traces back to the Latin communis, meaning "common, public, shared by all or many," which itself derives from the hypothesized Proto-Indo-European root ko-moin-i-, with a core sense of "shared by all." "Wide" originates from the Old English wīd, from Proto-Germanic wīdaz, meaning "far, extensive." The compound "community-wide" logically follows a transparent pattern in English where a noun is hyphenated with "wide" to create an adjective meaning "extending across the entirety of" that noun. Thus, the literal "extending across the shared group" evolved into the modern sense of something encompassing or affecting all members of a community.

Structure: community (a group of people) + wide (extending across) - community: From Latin communitas (fellowship, community), via Old French comuneté. In this compound, it functions as the base noun specifying the scope. - wide: From Old English wīd (spacious, extensive). In this compound, it functions as an adjective meaning "extending throughout."