Where does “distendere” come from?
distendere (Latin) comes from Latin distendo, from Latin tendo, from Latin tentus, from Latin teneō, from Proto-Italic tenēō, from Proto-Indo-European ten- — to stretch, to extend.
distendere (Latin): third-person plural perfect active indicative of...
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- third-person plural perfect active indicative of...
Ancestry of “distendere”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | distendo | I stretch out, extend; I swell or distend |
| 2 | Latin | tendo | I stretch, stretch out, distend, extend; I... |
| 3 | Latin | tentus | stretched; stretched out; extended; distended;... |
| 4 | Latin | teneō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | tenēō | to hold |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |
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