Where does “expand” come from?
Expand comes from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Latin expandere, meaning to spread out, derived from ex- plus pandus.
expand (English): To change from a smaller form and/or size to a...
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- To change from a smaller form and/or size to a...
Ancestry of “expand”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anglo-Norman | espaundre | Alternative form of espandre |
| 2 | Old French | espandre | to spread out; to blossom; to destroy, to... |
| 3 | Latin | expandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 4 | Latin | expando | I spread out; I expand; I explain |
| 5 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 6 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |