Etymograph

English

stendo

Stendo comes from Italian stendere ‘to stretch out’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *téndeti.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*téndeti1reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tendō1‘to stretch’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtendō1
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextendō2as extendere‘to stretch or thrust out’
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentstendere3as stendo‘to stretch out’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2019stendo3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin extendo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Italian stendere
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English stendo
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2019, u/DaRepeaterDaRepeater: “I just received the Thomas Machine and Design Mlok…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*téndetiWiktionary, Latin extendoreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tendōWiktionary, Latin extendo‘to stretch’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtendōWiktionary, Latin extendo
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextendōWiktionary, Italian stendereas extendere‘to stretch or thrust out’
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentstendereWiktionary, English stendoas stendo‘to stretch out’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2019stendoWiktionary, English stendo. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2019, u/DaRepeaterDaRepeater: “I just received the Thomas Machine and Design Mlok…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *tendō ‘to stretch’

attendance, intentional, intend, tender, hypertension, contend, pretense, hypotension, inattention, pretension, entendre, portend, 26 more

through Latin tendō

attention, intention, tension, pretend, tend, tense, contention, tempt, tensor, tensile, entente, portent, detent, 40 more

through Latin extendō ‘to stretch or thrust out’

extensive, extension, extent, extend, extensible

Today it means

noun a magazine that holds more cartridges than is standard, esp. that of a Glock handgun.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “stendo”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin extendo, Italian stendere. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *téndeti / stendo

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