English
extent
Extent comes from Anglo-Norman extente, from Latin extendō ‘to stretch out’, from tendō ‘to stretch’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*téndetireconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tendō‘to stretch’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtendō‘to stretch’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextendōas extendere‘to stretch or thrust out’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400extente‘valuation; stretch of land’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
- Englishearliest quotation 1590extent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*téndetireconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tendō‘to stretch’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtendō‘to stretch’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextendōas extendere‘to stretch or thrust out’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400extente‘valuation; stretch of land’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
- Englishearliest quotation 1590extent
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book I, Canto XII: “But when they came where that dead Dragon lay,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *tendō ‘to stretch’
pretend, attendance, tender, intend, intentional, hypertension, contend, pretense, hypotension, pretension, inattention, portend, entendre, 31 more
through Latin tendō
attention, tend, tension, intention, tense, contention, tempt, tensor, tensile, entente, portent, détente, detent, 46 more
Today it means
noun A range of values or locations.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *téndeti / extent