estendre

Inherited from Latin extendere. Compare Occitan estendre, French étendre, and Spanish extender.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈten.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈten.dɾe]

estendre (first-person singular present estenc, first-person singular preterite estenguí, past participle estès); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to spread, to stretch out
2. to extend, to enlarge
3. (of clothes) to hang up

• estenedor

• “estendre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “estendre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “estendre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• extendre

From Old French estendre, from Latin extendō, extendere.

estendre

1. to extend (make longer)

• French: étendre

From Latin extendere.

estendre

1. to stretch, extend or spread
   • c. 1220, Rutebuef, Ci coumence la repentance Rutebeuf:

     Si fait le cors a terre estendre.
     Que puis je fors la mort atendre?

     If he spreads his body on the ground
     What else can I expecte apart from death?

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• estension
• estente

• Middle French: estendre
  • French: étendre