superintend
Meaningto oversee
Common meaning: to oversee and direct work
- superover, above
- inin, into; (before adjectives) not
- tendto stretch out; to aim atLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1852 · scan
‘over, above’ + ‘in, into’ + ‘to stretch out’ → superintend
Journey through time
- Latintendō, tetendī, tentum/tēnsum‘to stretch out’
- Frenchsuperintendant
- Englishsuperintend‘to oversee and direct work’ · today
super- also in: supervenesupervisesuperficialsuperfluoussuperlative
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin tendō ‘to stretch out; to aim at’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry tendō, p. 1852 · dictionary scan
Roots
- tendō, tetendī, tentum/tēnsum Latin “to stretch out; to aim at”
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