Tendere is one Latin equivalent of 'strertch'. It's an infinitive that literally means 'to stretch, spread, extend'. Extendere is another equivalent. It's an infinitive that literally means 'to stretch out, extend, expand'.
I stretch; I proceed.
Stretch
The root word of the word tendons is "tend-" which comes from the Latin word "tendere" meaning "to stretch or extend."
The root word in "attention" that means stretch is "tend" from the Latin word "tendere," which means to stretch or extend.
The Latin root word for attention is "attendere," which means "to stretch out" or "to reach toward."
spread, extend, reach, and expand.
Pretentious has the same roots as pretension (praetens- 'alleged,') and pretend. They all come from the Latin praetendere 'stretch forth, claim,' from prae'before' + tendere 'stretch.'
The root is Latin: "Tensus": to stretch.
Answer "juge animus iunctus" is as close as I could get for now. I don't know latin so this was a stretch for me and might be totally wrong - but...it is in the ballpark.
If you've ever awoken in the morning, yawned, and stretched your arms, you've experienced pandiculation. Use the noun pandiculation to describe the particular sleepy combination of yawning and stretching. ... The Latin root is pandiculari, "to stretch oneself," from pandere, "to stretch."
The word comes from the Latin hypotēnūsa, which comes from the Greek hupoteinousa, from the feminine present participle of hupoteinein, meaning 'to stretch or extend under' : hupo-, hypo- + teinein, 'to stretch'.
The prefix for tension is ten and the suffix is ion