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παράτα^σις , εως, ἡ, (παρατείνω)
A.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. ; παρ᾽ 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. π. δοῦναί τισι grant them an extension of time for payment, PTeb.37.8 (i B. C., pl.).
2. extension in space, long stretch, ἡ τῶν ἐντέρων π. Arist.PA677b37, cf. Iamb.Myst.1.9.
3. direction of extension, dimension, ἓξ π. S.E.M. 9.367, al.
II. Gramm., time of the tempus imperfectum (cf.παρατατικός), A.D.Synt.70.27, EM472.22, Eust.19.28 ; opp. ἐνεστὼς χρόνος, A.D.Adv.124.5.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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