Talk:extendant

RFV discussion: May–July 2023

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extendant

I find a variety of heraldic definitions mentioned, and have expanded the entry to note them: "displayed (of wings)", "straight (of e.g. a snake)", "with forefeet extended (of a lion, etc)". But I was only able to find one use (now added to the entry).

The Complaynt of Scotland has a non-heraldic instance in Scots:

• He sende ane riche present extendant til thre scoir of thousandis peces of gold.

In the spelling extendent, there is also this non-heraldic instance:

• 2015 May 22, Prof. Christos C. Frangos, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference: Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies in the Economic & Administrative Sciences (I.C.Q.Q.M.E.A.S. 2015), Christos Frangos, →ISBN, page 212:

  Figure 1. the structure and definition of continuant in BFO
  According to the definitions that formal[l]y and explicitly describe the continuant in BFO, it is a three-dimentional entity (entity extendent in three spatial dimentions).

Perhaps a generalized sense will just barely meet CFI, or perhaps this is dictionary-only. - -sche (discuss) 22:16, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

The second one looks like a non-native speaker trying to make English by calquing from Greek, complete with inflected forms not found in English. I don't know much modern Greek, but I know Ancient Greek does a lot with participles that English does with clauses and other structures- so this may be an attempt to create present participles by analogy with another language like French. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:10, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Having checked books earlier, I checked the web now, and still can't find anything (most hits are non-English). The OED only has mentions in other dictionaries. A candidate for the dictionary-only appendix, I suppose. - -sche (discuss) 17:48, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

RFV-failed. If this ever becomes citeable: the ety was {{der|en|fro|extendant||stretching, extending}}; equivalent to {{suf|en|extend|ant}}, the pronunciation was IPA^(key): /ɛkˈstɛndənt/. - -sche (discuss) 20:03, 17 July 2023 (UTC)