Other forms: extents
Extent is how large or how far something goes. The full extent, to some extent, the extent of the damage.
To some extent and to a great extent are hedges, and they are useful because they concede partial truth without abandoning the point. The Anglo-Norman word first named a valuation of land, from a verb meaning to stretch out.
1nounextentHow large or how far something goes.
“Nobody yet knows the full extent of the damage caused by the flood.”
extent is a measure.
Anglo-Norman extente first meant a valuation or survey of land, from Old French estendre, to stretch out, from Latin extendere.
Proto-Indo-European
*tend-
Latin
extendere
Old French
estente — valuation of land, stretch of land
Anglo-Norman
extente
Middle English
extente
English, today
extent
Built from
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