English borrowed the same Latin word twice — "study" through French in the 1200s, and "studio" through Italian 600 years later.
A room or building where an artist, photographer, or musician works. Also a place where films, television programmes, or sound recordings are made.
From Italian studio ('a study, a room for study or artistic work'), from Latin studium ('eagerness, zeal, study, application'), from studēre ('to be eager, to apply oneself'). The word shifted from the activity of studying to the place where creative work happens. Key roots: *(s)tew-d- (Proto-Indo-European: "to push, strike, knock (hence to