What is the Latin word for extend?

The usual Latin words for “extend” are extendō, distendō, explicō; also prōferō, prō̆pāgō, prōmoveō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“extend” in Latin

extendōto stretch or thrust out; to extend, prolong or continue; to enlarge or increase distendōto stretch out, extend; to swell or distend (asunder) or pulled apart; to distract explicōto unfold, unfurl, uncoil, loosen, undo; to spread out, stretch out, extend, display, deploy; to disentangle, solve, set prōferōto bring out, bring forth; to make known, produce in public, publish, reveal; to appear, show oneself prō̆pāgōto propagate; to extend, enlarge, increase prōmoveōto move forward, cause to advance, push onward, propel, advance; to extend, enlarge, increase; to put out, dislocate, di dūcōto lead, guide, conduct, lead away; to take; to draw, pull prōdūcōto lead or bring forth, forward or out; to conduct to; bring before, present; to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extend porrigōto stretch, spread out, extend; to offer, hold out pertineōto extend, stretch out, reach, matter; to belong, relate, pertain, have concern; to have a tendency to, tend to

The English word extend itself goes back to Latin tendō, through extendō.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

extend

TRANS., extendere (of both space and time): distendere (to stretch out; e.g., arms, a battle-array): explicare (to unfold; lines in battle, etc.): proferre: propagare: promovere (to give a further extent to, one’s dominion, boundaries; to a certain place; usque ad locum, loco tenus): ducere: producere (to extend, in respect of time): To admit of a widely-extended application (of a thing), latius patere: to extend a thing to all, rem vulgare: to extend itself, sese extendere; extendi; diffundi; patescere; diffundi et patescere (to spread itself far and ivide); progredi (to advance, increase).

INTRANS., porrigi (to be stretched out far before the sight of the observer; of countries): pertinere (to reach, in respect of space or circuit; figuratively, to have influence, reference. ☞ Pertingere is quite unclassical): patere (to lie open to a certain point, so that one can look over it, of countries; figuratively, to have an extensive circuit of relation or operation): excurrere: procurrere (to run or extend in a certain direction, especially of a country, a mountain). To extend far, late patere (also, figuratively, to be of wide extent): to extend far into the country, longe introrsus pertinere: to extend too far, longius excurrere (also, figuratively, of a speech, when it departs from its proper subject): to extend to a place, attingere (with accusative): to extend to the sea, excurrere usque ad mare; patere usque ad mare (both of a country): to extend into a country, into the sea, excurrere or eminere in mare (of a promontory): excurrere in terram (of a mountain ridge, etc.): the dominion of the king does not extend beyond Italy, *fines imperii regis terminatur Italia: the power of the Etrurians extended far both by sea and land, opes Tuscanorum late terra marique patuere: the fame of his glory extended from the Rhine to the Euphrates, admirationis ejus fama Rhenum Euphratemque conjunxit: a precept, a law extends far, praeceptum, lex late patet: an edict extends to all, edictum ad omnes pertinet: a law which extends to all, lex diffusa in omnes: his property, his power does not extend far, haud multum valet opibus.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for extend?: The usual Latin words for “extend” are extendō, distendō, explicō; also prōferō, prō̆pāgō, prōmoveō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.