tendo

Borrowed from Italian tenda, English tent and French tente, voicing of the second -t- was preferred because tent- was taken by tenti.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtendo]
• Rhymes: -endo
• Hyphenation: ten‧do

tendo (accusative singular tendon, plural tendoj, accusative plural tendojn)

1. tent

tendo

1. gerund of ter

Borrowed from Esperanto tendo, English tent, French tente, Italian tenda, Spanish tienda, from Vulgar Latin *tenda, from Latin tendō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtendo/

tendo (plural tendi)

1. tent

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛndo
• Hyphenation: tèn‧do

tendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tendere

• tonde

• tennō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈten.doː/, [ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈten.do/, [ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪o]

From Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ténd-e-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *tend-, extension of Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Sihler traces the /d/ back to the ordinary present suffix -ye in position after *n (cf. offendō, dēfendō from *gʷʰen-ye-). Cognates include Ancient Greek τείνω (teínō), Sanskrit तनोति (tanóti) and Old English þennan.

tendō (present infinitive tendere, perfect active tetendī, supine tentum); third conjugation

1. to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend
2. to direct one's self or one's course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one's course in any direction

   Synonyms: lūctor, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, ēnītor, ēlabōrō, appetō, affectō, temptō, quaerō, studeō, contendō, adnītor, īnsequor, labōrō, pugnō, molior, perīclitor, nītor, spectō, intendō

   Antonyms: āversor, abhorreō, dēclīnō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.204–206:

     “Per variōs cāsūs, per tot discrīmina rērum,
     tendimus in Latium, sēdēs ubi fāta quiētās
     ostendunt; illīc fās rēgna resurgere Troiae.”

     “Through varied misfortunes, through so many hazards of circumstances, we aim our course into Latium, where the Fates reveal [to us a] peaceful homeland; there it is divine will that the kingdom of Troy shall rise again.”

3. to go, proceed, extend, stretch
4. to aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction
5. to exert one's self, to strive, endeavor
6. (in particular) To exert one's self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend
7. to set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp
8. to speak to somebody

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• The supine form is either tentum or the later analogical tēnsum.^[1]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), with spelling influenced by tendō (verb). Doublet of tenōn which was borrowed earlier.

tendō m (genitive tendōnis); third declension (Medieval Latin)

2. (anatomy) tendon

Third-declension noun.

• tendinōsus (adjective)

• → English: tendon
• → French: tendon
  • → Romanian: tendon
  • →? Turkish: tendon
• → Galician: tendón
• → Italian: tendine
• → Portuguese: tendão
• → Spanish: tendón

• “tendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to journey towards a place: tendere aliquo
    
  • where are you going: quo tendis?
    
  • to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
    
  • to raise the hands to heaven (attitude of prayer): (supinas) manus ad caelum tendere
    

tendo

1. gerund of ter

tendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tender

From -tenda (“to act, to do”).

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tendo (ma class, plural matendo)

1. deed, action, act