English
extance
Extance comes from Latin extantia ‘a standing out’, and goes back to exstans ‘projecting’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexstans‘projecting’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextantia‘a standing out’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1670sextance
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexstans‘projecting’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextantia‘a standing out’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1670sextance
Earliest quotation: c. 1670s, Thomas Brown [i.e., (please specify the section): “He […] who hath in his intellect the ideal…”
Every English word from Latin exstans
Today it means
noun Emergence.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exstans / extance