tennis
See also: Tennis
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez, second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)
- (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
- “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
- (dated) A match in this sport.
- 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]
- 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)
- (obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- tennis-balls
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Armenian: թենիս (tʿenis)
- → Arabic: تنس (tinis)
- → Asturian: tenis
- → Basque: tenis
- → Burmese: တင်းနစ် (tang:nac)
- → Catalan: tennis
- → Czech: tenis
- → Danish: tennis
- → Dutch: tennis
- → Finnish: tennis
- → French: tennis
- → Galician: tenis
- German: Tennis
- → Estonian: tennis
- → Borôro: el, τένις
- → Hebrew: טניס (ténis)
- → Hindi: टेनिस (ṭenis)
- → Hungarian: tenisz
- → Icelandic: tennis
- → Italian: tennis
- → Japanese: テニス (tenisu)
- → Korean: 테니스 (teniseu)
- → Latvian: teniss
- → Luxembourgish: Tennis
- → Malay: tenis
- → Northern Kurdish: tenîs
- → Norwegian: tennis
- → Persian: تنیس (tenis)
- → Polish: tenis
- → Portuguese: ténis, tênis
- → Romanian: tenis
- → Russian: те́ннис (ténnis)
- → Kazakh: теннис (tennis)
- → Scottish Gaelic: teanas
- → Serbo-Croatian: tenis / тенис
- → Slovene: tenis
- → Spanish: tenis
- → Swahili: tenisi
- → Swedish: tennis
- → Telugu: టెన్నిసు (ṭennisu), టెన్నిస్ (ṭennis)
- → Thai: เทนนิส (ten-nís)
- → Turkish: tenis
- → Ukrainian: теніс (tenis)
- → Uzbek: tennis
- → Walloon: tenisse
TranslationsEdit
sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
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VerbEdit
tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)
- (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
- (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
- 1633, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Sir James Ware; reprinted as A View of the State of Ireland […], Dublin: […] the Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] By John Morrison, 1809:
- they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis m (uncountable)
Further readingEdit
- “tennis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tennis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “tennis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tennis” in Den Danske Ordbog
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
tennis n (uncountable)
- tennis (sport)
Derived termsEdit
- rolstoeltennis
- tafeltennis
- tennisarm
- tennisbaan
- tennisnet
- tennisracket
- tennissen
- tennisspeelster
- tennisspeler
- tennisveld
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
tennis
AnagramsEdit
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of tennis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien | |
partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | |
illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
accusative | nom. | tennis | tennikset |
gen. | tenniksen | ||
genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien | |
partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | |
inessive | tenniksessä | tenniksissä | |
elative | tenniksestä | tenniksistä | |
illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | |
adessive | tenniksellä | tenniksillä | |
ablative | tennikseltä | tenniksiltä | |
allative | tennikselle | tenniksille | |
essive | tenniksenä | tenniksinä | |
translative | tennikseksi | tenniksiksi | |
instructive | — | tenniksin | |
abessive | tenniksettä | tenniksittä | |
comitative | — | tenniksineen |
Possessive forms of tennis (type vastaus) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | tennikseni | tenniksemme |
2nd person | tenniksesi | tenniksenne |
3rd person | tenniksensä |
SynonymsEdit
- verkkopallo (dated)
CompoundsEdit
- tenniskenkä
- tenniskenttä
- tenniskyynärpää
- tennismaila
- tennispallo
- tennistossu
- tennisturnaus (tennis tournament)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis m (plural tennis)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tennis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)
DeclensionEdit
declension of tennis
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis m (invariable)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- tennis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian BokmålEdit
NounEdit
tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
tennis c (definite singular tennisen)