tenacia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tenācia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈna.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Hyphenation: te‧nà‧cia

Noun

tenacia f (plural tenacie)

1. tenacity

Related terms

• tenace

Anagrams

• Caetani

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /teˈnaː.ki.a/, [t̪ɛˈnäːkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /teˈna.t͡ʃi.a/, [t̪eˈnäːt͡ʃiä]

Etymology 1

From tenāx +‎ -ia.

Noun

tenācia f (genitive tenāciae); first declension

1. stubbornness, obstinacy, tenacy

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	tenācia
Genitive	tenāciōrum
Dative	tenāciīs
Accusative	tenācia
Ablative	tenāciīs
Vocative	tenācia

Descendants

• → English: tenacy
• → Italian: tenacia

Etymology 2

Adjective

tenācia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of tenāx

References

• tenacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• tenacia in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “tenacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press