expando

English

Etymology

Perhaps a short form of expandable object.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ændəʊ

Noun

expando (plural expandos)

  1. (programming) A property added to an object at run-time.
    • 2009, Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson, Inside Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0:
      Because JavaScript objects are not constrained to predefined interfaces as they are with .NET objects, you can set expando properties on any object.
    • 2010, Alexei White, JavaScript Programmer's Reference:
      I talk more about expandos in Chapter 10. This means that you can arbitrarily add new properties to an object whenever you want.

See also

Latin

Etymology

    From ex- (“out”) + pandō (“spread”).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    expandō (present infinitive expandere, perfect active expandī, supine expānsum or expassum); third conjugation

    1. to spread something out
    2. to expand
    3. to explain

    Conjugation

    Descendants

    • Insular Romance:
      • Sardinian:
        • Campidanese: spàndiri
        • Logudorese: ispàndere
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
      • Corsican: spande
      • Istriot: spànsi
      • Italian: spandere
      • Neapolitan: spànnere
      • Sicilian: spànniri
      • Venetan: spànder, spàndar
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Friulian: spand
      • Ladin: spaner (Fascian)
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *expandicāre

    Borrowings:

    References

    • “expando”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “expando”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Portuguese

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ɐ̃du

    Verb

    expando

    1. first-person singular present indicative of expandir

    Spanish

    Verb

    expando

    1. first-person singular present indicative of expandir