English
extenuated
From extenuate + -ed.
A compound of extenuate + -ed
Proto-Indo-European *tenh₂- ‘to stretch, extend’
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Latin tenuō ‘to enfeeble, weaken, wear down’
Latin extenuō ‘to diminish, reduce, thin’
Latin extenuātus ‘diminished, reduced, thinned’
Middle English extenuat ‘(medicine) made thin, emaciated’
English extenuate
Today it means
adj Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / extenuated