English
extancy
Extancy comes from Latin extāns ‘Existing, extant’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextānsas extantia‘Existing, extant’
- Englishearliest quotation 1663extancy
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextānsas extantia‘Existing, extant’
- Englishearliest quotation 1663extancy
Earliest quotation: 1663, Robert Boyle, An Experimental History of Cold: “[W]hereas in ſmall fragments or plates, the Ice, though…”
Every English word from Latin extāns
Today it means
noun The state of rising above others, or a projection.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin extāns / extancy