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distendo
distendo
Latin
Etymology
From dis- (“assunder, apart, utterly”) + tendō (“stretch”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /disˈten.doː/, [dɪsˈtɛn.doː]
Verb
distendō (present infinitive distendere, perfect active distendī, supine distentum); third conjugation
Inflection
References
- distendo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- distendo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “distendo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.