extendo

extendo

Latin

Etymology

    From ex- + tendō.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    extendō (present infinitive extendere, perfect active extendī, supine extentum); third conjugation

    1. to stretch or thrust out
    2. to extend, prolong or continue
      Synonyms: distendō, porrigō, pandō, prōlongō, prōtrahō, trahō, prōferō, explicō
      Urbs circum spatium quīnque et dīmidiī chīliometrōrum extenta erat.
      The city spread over an area of five and a half kilometres.
    3. to enlarge or increase
      Synonyms: ampliō, adaugeō, multiplicō, augeō, amplificō, accumulō
      Antonyms: diminuō, minuō, dēminuō, imminuō, tenuō, corripiō

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Asturian: estender
    • Catalan: estendre
    • English: extend
    • French: étendre
    • Friulian: estindi
    • Galician: estender
    • Italian: estendere, stendere
    • Occitan: estendre, esténer, estesar
    • Piedmontese: stende
    • Portuguese: estender
    • Romanian: extinde
    • Sardinian: istèndhere
    • Sicilian: stènniri
    • Spanish: extender
    • Proto-Brythonic: *estɨnn
      • Middle Breton: astenn
        • Breton: astenn
      • Middle Cornish: ystyne
      • Middle Welsh: estynn

    References

    • extendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • extendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • extendo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to enlarge the boundaries of a kingdom: fines (imperii) propagare, extendere, (longius) proferre
    • extendo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

    Portuguese

    Verb

    extendo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of extender