Protendo, protendis, protendi, protensum, & protentum, proténdere, Plin. To sette, put, or stretch forth: to deferre or prolong.Aciem protendere in æstus pelagi. Catul. To caste his eyes and looke towarde the sea.Brachia alterna protendere.Virg.To stretch out his armes one after an other.Dextram precantem protendere.Virg.Famam alicuius protendere. Claud. To spreade ones renoune.Lachrymas protendere. Claud. Nanti protendere manum.Ouid.To stretche out his hande to one that swinuneth. In Ianuarium mensem protendimus.Cicer.We deferre it till Ianuarie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prō-tendo, di, sum and tum, 3, v. a., to stretch forth or out, to extend (not in Cic.; syn. porrigo). I.Lit.: hastas, Verg. A. 11, 606 Wagn.: bracchia in mare, Ov. M. 14, 191: supinas manus ad genua alicujus, Petr. 17 fin.: aciem (oculorum) in aestus pelagi, Cat. 64, 127: cervicem fortiter, Tac. A. 15, 67: cochleae bina ceu cornua protendentes contrahentesque, Plin. 9, 32, 51, 101: protentis hastis, Tac. A. 14, 37: pedes temo protentus in octo, Verg. G. 1, 171: consanguineam protendere dextram, Sil. 1, 655: praerupta protendit juga Cithaeron, Sen. Phoen. 12.—Mid., to stretch forth or out, to extend: inter digitos medius longissime protenditur,
projects
, Plin. 11, 43, 99, 244: protenditur ad Bactros usque gens Mardorum,
reaches
,
extends
, id. 6, 16, 18, 47: anus haec in pellis periculum protenditur, is swelled out, distended with drink, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Schol. Hor. S. 1, 6, 22.—Of a river: usque ad colla cornipedum protentus,
swollen
, Sil. 16, 387.—II.Trop., to make long, to prolong, lengthen, extend (post-class.): utramvis partem in plura verba protendere, App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 267 Oud.: praepositiones producere atque protendere,
to prolong in pronunciation
, Gell. 2, 17, 1; 6: barbare protendere, id. 4, 17, 7.—Hence, prōtentus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, lengthened, extended (post-class.): Phocis lucis in exortum protentior,