délai

time limit; extension (extra time to complete a task)

“il faut le faire dans un délai de trois semaines” — it must be done within three weeks

Inherited from Middle French delai, from Old French delai, delaie (“delay”), from delaier, delayer, deslaier (“to put off, delay, offlet, drain”) (délayer in modern French), from des- + laiier (“to leave”), partly from Frankish *lattjan (“to delay, hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *latjaną (“to delay, hinder, stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, leave behind”), and partly from Frankish *laibijan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to leave, cause to stay”), from Proto-In