longare

longare [LL] , to make long or longer, to lengthen, prolong: a (physical object); b (period of time); c (syllable, or word sc. by lengthening of syllable); d (mus. note). a 1295 in fusillo ejusdem molendini ~ando (Ac. Cliffe) DCCant.; suam curtam Burnellus inepte / caudam longari de novitate cupit Gower VC I 202; to make lange, extendere, ~are, pro[longare], producere ‥ CathA.  b estas longando luces et hiemps breviando Garl. Mor. Scol. 270.  c si breve longari licet et longum breviari Garl. Syn. 1586B; que ‥ in -ates desinunt ~antur, ut Euphrātes, Mithridātes Bacon Tert. 260 (cf. ib.: producitur opp. breviatur); ‘adamantinus, amethystinus ‥’, que omnia breviantur in penultima syllaba; nam omnes auctores breviant hec et nunquam ~ant Id. CSPhil. 461.  d in omni cantu penultima nota semper ~ari debet Tunst. 254; ultima semibrevis ‥ in eodem modo potest ~ari Wals. Mus. Mens. 88.