The story
- Latin · derived fromextendere
- Old French · derived fromestente“valuation of land, stretch of land”
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromextente
- Middle English · inherited fromextente
- English todayextent
From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.