English
extenuative
From extenuate + -ive.
Formed from extenuate + -ive
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 Tending to extenuate.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / extenuative