extensio Latin · revision 7910

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''extēnsiō''' ''f'' (genitive extēnsiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[extendō]] “to stretch out” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) It is also written ⟨extentiō⟩.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Ambrose, whom he dates c. 340–397 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant stretching out, extension, the span covered by stretching, as of strings in Isidore and of limbs in Caelius Aurelianus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Vegetius it meant a swelling.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant extension, addition.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for spreading, expanse, and the surveying of land.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it for stretching taut and, in medicine, swelling.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''estensione'' and French ''extension'', and [[en|extension]] came about 1400, “a swelling”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 340–397 AD – Ambrose uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 400 AD – Vegetius uses it of a swelling.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore uses it of strings.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1400 – English ''extension'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Stretching out, [[m|en|extension]]; a span.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A swelling.^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Expanse; surveying.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[extendō]]

+ * [[tendō]]

+ * [[en|extension]]

+ * [[en|extend]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}