Editing Pretender (section)

== Etymology ==
The noun "pretender" is derived from the French verb ''prétendre,''<ref>Larousse, Dictionnaire de la langue francaise, "Lexis", Paris, 1979, p. 1494, ''prétendre à quelque chose = aspirer à l'obtenir''</ref> itself derived from the Latin ''praetendere'' ("to stretch out before", "to hold before (as a pretext)",<ref>''Cassell's Latin Dictionary'', Marchant, J.R.V, & Charles, Joseph F., (Eds.), Revised Edition, 1928, p. 436</ref> "to extend [a claim] before"<ref>'''[https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=pretend pretend] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130050239/https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=pretend |date=2023-01-30 }}''', ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,'' Fifth Edition, 2020. "[Middle English ''pretenden,'' from Old French ''pretendre,'' from Latin ''praetendere'' : ''prae-'', pre- + ''tendere'', to extend]."</ref>), from the verb ''tendo'' ("to stretch"),<ref>''Cassell's Latin Dictionary'', Marchant, J.R.V, & Charles, Joseph F., (Eds.), Revised Edition, 1928, p. 569</ref> plus the preposition ''prae'' ("before, in front").<ref>''Cassell's Latin Dictionary'', Marchant, J.R.V, & Charles, Joseph F., (Eds.), Revised Edition, 1928, p. 429</ref> The English, French and Latin words have ''prima facie'' no pejorative connotation,<ref>"[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/french-english/pretendant prétendant] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503193557/https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/french-english/pretendant |date=2022-05-03 }}," ''Global French–English Dictionary,'' 2018, "''personne qui cherche à épouser''" (a suiter).</ref> although one who pretends to a position with no plausible claim or with an entirely false claim, may be differentiated as a "false pretender", see for example [[Perkin Warbeck]].