tendo, tendere, tetendi, tentus: to extend, pull tight, direct, aim for

Aeneid 1.18, 'iam tum tenditque fovetque' (even now [Juno] aims for, and cherishes [the hope that Carthage will rule over the nations]). cf. intentus, -a, -um (fr. intendo, -ere), attentive to, intent upon, waiting for, eager. Eng., intentional, something done deliberately. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 13. 232:
My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck, on my distant and day-long ramble;/They rise together—they slowly circle around./I believe in those wing’d purposes,/And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, / And consider green and violet, and the tufted crown, intentional;/And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else; And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me;/ And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.