παράτᾰσις (paratasis)

Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 2 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

παράτᾰσις · paratasis — LSJ

extension, continuance of, in time, continuance, continue

extension or continuance of or in time, S.E. P. 3.107, Ptol. Tetr. 75 ; χρονικὴ π. Procl. Inst. 50 ; ἐπιθυμία . . μετὰ προκοπῆς τινος καὶ παρατάσεως Stoic. 3.96 ; π. τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος continuance of the present, A.D. Synt. 252.4 ; ἐν παρατάσει γενέσθαι τοῦ τρέχειν continue to run, ib. 273.17 ; εἰ ἐν π. χρόνου τὸ εὐδαιμονεῖν Plot. 1.5tit. ; παρʼ ὃ ἡ κίνησις τὴν π. ἔχει, of time, Id. 3.7.8, cf. 3.6.17 ; τὸ ἀεί φαμεν παράτασιν ἔχειν Dam. Pr. 298.

b extension

π. δοῦναί τισι grant them an extension of time for payment, PTeb. 37.8 (i B. C., pl.).

2 extension in space, long stretch

extension in space, long stretch, ἡ τῶν ἐντέρων π. Arist. PA 677b37, cf. Iamb. Myst. 1.9.

3 direction of extension, dimension

direction of extension, dimension, ἓξ π. S.E. M. 9.367, al.

II time of the tempus imperfectum

Gramm., time of the tempus imperfectum (cf. παρατατικός), A.D. Synt. 70.27, EM 472.22, Eust. 19.28 ; opp. ἐνεστὼς χρόνος, A.D. Adv. 124.5.

In the wild

παρατάσεως · parataseōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6219)
παρατάσει · paratasei Plotinus, Enneads 3.6 (DIORISIS sentence 1985)
παράτασιν · paratasin Plotinus, Enneads 3.7 (DIORISIS sentence 2100)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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