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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la tendō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔnˈtɛn.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [konˈtɛn.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''contendō''' (present infinitive contendere, perfect active contendī, supine contentum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[con-]] and [[tendō]] “to stretch”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of comparing.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to draw tight, stretch, bend a bow, and to hurl, as in Virgil, and in Plautus to compare one thing with another.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to strain one's powers, to strive, to hasten, to maintain, assert, to demand earnestly, and to compete, contend.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to strive, strain, assert, maintain, contend.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''contendere'' and Old French ''contendre'', and gave [[en|contend]] in the mid-15th century, “to compete”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of comparing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of striving and contending.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of bending a bow.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-15th century – English ''contend'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To stretch; to bend (a bow); to hurl.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To strain; to strive.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To hasten.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To assert, maintain.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To demand earnestly.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To compete, [[m|en|contend]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|compare]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[contentiō]]
+ * [[incontentus]]
+ * [[contentē]]
+ * [[contentus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[attendō]]
+ * [[contentiōsē]]
+ * [[contentiōsus]]
+ * [[dētendō]]
+ * [[distendō]]
+ * [[extendō]]
+ * [[intendō]]
+ * [[obtendō]]
+ * [[ostendō]]
+ * [[pertendō]]
+ * [[tendō]]
+ * [[en|contend]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}