tendon

See also: tendón

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.dən/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

tendon (plural tendons)

1. (anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.
   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 78:

     I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.

   Synonym: sinew

2. (biology) The hamstring of a quadruped.
3. (construction) A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.

Derived terms

• tendonitis
• Achilles’ tendon

Translations

band of fibrous tissue

• Albanian: dell (sq) m, damar (sq) m, tendin m
• Arabic: وَتَر‎ (ar) m (watar)
• Armenian: ջիլ (hy) (ǰil)
• Azerbaijani: vətər
• Belarusian: сухажы́лле n (suxažýllje)
• Bulgarian: сухожи́лие (bg) n (suhožílie)
• Burmese: အရွတ် (my) (a.rwat)
• Catalan: tendó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肌腱 (zh) (jījiàn), 腱 (zh) (jiàn)

• Czech: šlacha (cs) f
• Danish: sene c
• Dutch: pees (nl) c
• Esperanto: tendeno
• Estonian: kõõlus (et)
• Even: хум (hum)
• Finnish: jänne (fi)
• French: tendon (fr) m
• Galician: balastrón m, balistrón m, fío (gl) m, liña (gl) f, bestra f
• Georgian: მყესი (mq̇esi)
• German: Sehne (de) f
• Greek: τένοντας (el) m (ténontas)

  Ancient: τένων m (ténōn)

• Haitian Creole: tandon
• Hebrew: גִיד‎ (he) m (gid)
• Hindi: स्नायु (hi) f (snāyu), नस (hi) f (nas)
• Hungarian: ín (hu), ínszalag (hu)
• Icelandic: sin (is) f
• Indonesian: tendon (id), urat (id)
• Interlingua: tendine, tendon
• Irish: teannán
• Italian: tendine (it) m
• Japanese: 腱 (ja) (けん, ken), 筋 (ja) (すじ, suji)
• Kapampangan: litad
• Kazakh: сіңір (sıñır), тарамыс (taramys)
• Khmer: សរសៃពួរ (sɑɑ say puə), សរសៃ (km) (sɑɑ say)
• Korean: 심줄 (simjul), 힘줄 (ko) (himjul), 건(腱) (ko) (geon)
• Kriol: jinuj
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: jê (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сиңир (ky) (siŋir), тарамыш (ky) (taramış)
• Lao: ນະຫາລຸ (na hā lu), ເອັນ (ʼen), ເສັ້ນເອັນ (sen ʼen)
• Latvian: cīpsla f, dzīsla f
• Lithuanian: sausgyslė f
• Low German: Seen f
• Luxembourgish: Fies f
• Macedonian: тети́ва f (tetíva)
• Malay: tendon
• Manchu: ᠰᡠᠪᡝ (sube)
• Maori: iohere
• Middle English: synwe
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шөрмөс (mn) (šörmös), шандас (mn) (šandas)

• Munsee: wchéht
• Nanai: сумул
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sene (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: sene f, sen f

• Old English: sinu f
• Ossetian: нуар (nwar)
• Persian: تاندون‎ (tândon), پی‎ (fa) (pay)
• Polish: ścięgno (pl) n
• Portuguese: tendão (pt) m
• Quechua: bunelan
• Romanian: tendon (ro) n, ligament (ro) n, vână (ro) f (popular)
• Russian: сухожи́лие (ru) n (suxožílije), жи́ла (ru) f (žíla)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тѐтива f

  Roman: tètiva (sh) f

• Slovak: šľacha f
• Slovene: tetiva f, kita (sl) f
• Spanish: tendón (es) m
• Swedish: sena (sv) c
• Tagalog: litid
• Tajik: раг (rag), пай (pay)
• Tamil: தசைநாண் (tacaināṇ)
• Telugu: స్నాయువు (te) (snāyuvu)
• Thai: ลวดกำ (lûat gam), สายตัว (săai dtua), เอ็นกล้ามเนื้อ, แถบเอ็น (tɛ̀ɛp-en), เอ็น (th) (en), เส้นเอ็น (th) (sêen-en)
• Tibetan: རྒྱུད་པ (rgyud pa)
• Tocharian B: ṣñor
• Turkish: kiriş (tr), tendon (tr)
• Turkmen: ^{(please verify)} tendon
• Ukrainian: сухожи́лля (uk) n (suxožýllja)
• Uyghur: سىڭىر‎ (si'ngir)
• Uzbek: pay (uz), chandir (uz)
• Vietnamese: gân (vi) (腱)
• Volapük: kordül
• Westrobothnian: sen f
• Yakut: иҥиир (iñiir)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• ligament

References

• “tendon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “tendon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Anagrams

• Denton

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈten.don/

Noun

tendon

1. accusative singular of tendo

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tendō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.dɔ̃/

• Audio (CAN)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

tendon m (plural tendons)

1. tendon

Derived terms

• tendon d'Achille

Related terms

• tendineux
• tendinite

Descendants

• → Romanian: tendon
• →? Turkish: tendon

Further reading

• “tendon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Japanese

Romanization

tendon

1. Rōmaji transcription of てんどん

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tenˈdon/

Noun

tendon n (plural tendoane)

1. (anatomy) tendon

Declension

Declension of tendon

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tendon	tendonul	(niște) tendoane	tendoanele
genitive/dative	(unui) tendon	tendonului	(unor) tendoane	tendoanelor
vocative	tendonule		tendoanelor

Derived terms

• tendonul lui Ahile

References

• tendon in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon or from English tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tenˈdon/
• Hyphenation: ten‧don

Noun

tendon (definite accusative tendonu, plural tendonlar)

1. (anatomy) tendon

   Synonym: kiriş

Further reading

• tendon in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tendon”, in Nişanyan Sözlük