expando Latin · revision 7878

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Caecilius|origins=la pandō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɛkˈspan.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ekˈspan.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''expandō''' (present infinitive expandere, perfect active expandī, supine expānsum or expassum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ex-]] “out” and [[pandō]] “to spread”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Its participle is ⟨expassum⟩, as in Caecilius, or ⟨expānsum⟩, as in Pliny the Elder and Gellius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Caecilius, of spreading out.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Caecilius 230/220–168 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to spread out, unfold, as Pliny the Elder's clothes spread over a cold spring, and in Seneca to become wider, expand.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Lucretius it meant to expound, unfold in words.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to stretch, spread out.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''spandere'' and French ''épancher'', and Anglo-French ''espaundre'' and Old French ''espandre'' with the Latin gave [[en|expand]] in the early 15th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 230/220–168 BC – Caecilius uses it of spreading out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of expounding.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of expanding.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of spreading clothes.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''expand'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To spread out, unfold; to [[m|en|expand]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To expound.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[expānsiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pandō]]

+ * [[en|expand]]

+ * [[en|expansion]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}