noun
porrectĭo
Meaning
- a stretching out
porrectĭo, ōnis, f. 1. porrigo,
I. a stretching out, extending, extension:
digitorum (opp. contractio), Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150: bracchii, Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—II. Concr., a straight line (opp. circinatio), Vitr. 10, 3, 8.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
porrēctiō ōnis, f
1 porrigo, a stretching out, extension : digitorum.
In English words that came into English from porrectĭo
- porrectionporrectĭo