tenens
Latin
editEtymology
editPresent active participle of teneō (“to hold, have”).
Participle
edittenēns (genitive tenentis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension
editThird-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
edit- Catalan: tinent
- Galician: tenza
- Italian: tenente
- Sicilian: tinenti
- Spanish: teniente
- → English: tenent
Further reading
edit- 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)
Swedish
editPronunciation
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Noun
edittenens