different between extent vs plenitude

English

Etymology

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.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks?t?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Hyphenation: ex?tent

Noun

extent (plural extents)

1. A range of values or locations.
2. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.

   The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent

   • 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:

     The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.
3. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
4. The valuation of property.
5. (law) A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.

Derived terms

• multiextent
• to an extent
• to some extent

Related terms

• extend
• extense

Translations

Adjective

extent

1. (obsolete) Extended.

See also

• scope
• extent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

extent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of ext?

English

Etymology

From Middle English plenitude, that borrowed from Anglo-Norman plenitude, Middle French plenitude, and their source, Latin pl?nit?d?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pl?n?tju?d/

Noun

plenitude (countable and uncountable, plural plenitudes)

1. Fullness; completeness. [from 15th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 393:

     Louis ignored him, recalling the parlements to the plenitude of their powers on 23 September.

2. An abundance; a full supply. [from 17th c.]
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 156]:

     Mankind's old greatness was created in scarcity. But what may we expect from plenitude?

3. (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• plenitude principle
• plentitude

Related terms

• plenty
• plenitudine

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?nit?d?.

Noun

plenitude f (oblique plural plenitudes, nominative singular plenitude, nominative plural plenitudes)

1. plenitude; fullness

Descendants

• ? English: plenitude
• French: plénitude

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (plenitude, supplement)
• plenitude on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub