tenens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of teneō (“to hold, have”).

Participle

tenēns (genitive tenentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. holding, having
2. restraining
3. knowing, grasping, understanding

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	tenēns			tenentēs	tenentia
Genitive	tenentis			tenentium
Dative	tenentī			tenentibus
Accusative	tenentem	tenēns		tenentēs tenentīs	tenentia
Ablative	tenente tenentī1			tenentibus
Vocative	tenēns			tenentēs	tenentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• Catalan: tinent
• Galician: tenza
• Sicilian: tinenti
• Spanish: teniente
• → English: tenent

Further reading

• tenens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Noun

tenens

1. definite genitive singular of ten

Anagrams

• stenen