tennis
See also: Tennis
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez, second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 […]
- (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, (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, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
Derived terms edit
- court tennis
- football tennis
- lawn tennis
- paddle tennis
- platform tennis
- real tennis
- ring tennis
- royal tennis
- soft tennis
- table tennis
- table tennis table
- telly tennis
- tennis ball
- tennis bracelet
- tennis club
- tennis court
- tennis dress
- tennis elbow
- tennis player
- tennis polo
- tennis-racket
- tennis racket
- tennis racquet
- tennis shirt
- tennis shoe
- tennis wear
- text tennis
- tonsil tennis
- totem tennis
Descendants edit
- → 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
- → Greek: τένις (ténis)
- → 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-nít)
- → Turkish: tenis
- → Ukrainian: теніс (tenis)
- → Uzbek: tennis
- → Walloon: tenisse
Translations edit
sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
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Verb edit
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.
- 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
- they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tennis m (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “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.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tennis” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
tennis n (uncountable)
- tennis (sport)
Derived terms edit
- rolstoeltennis
- tafeltennis
- tennisarm
- tennisbaan
- tennisnet
- tennisracket
- tennissen
- tennisspeelster
- tennisspeler
- tennisveld
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
tennis
- inflection of tennissen:
Anagrams edit
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tennis
Declension edit
| Inflection of tennis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| abessive | tenniksettä | tenniksittä | ||
| instructive | — | tenniksin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms edit
- verkkopallo (dated)
Compounds edit
- tenniskenkä
- tenniskenttä
- tenniskyynärpää
- tennismaila
- tennispallo
- tennistossu
- tennisturnaus (tennis tournament)
Further reading edit
- “tennis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tennis m (plural tennis)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tennis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)
Declension edit
declension of tennis
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tennis m (invariable)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- tennis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
Derived terms edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
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Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
tennis c
Declension edit
| Declension of tennis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | tennis | tennisen | — | — |
| Genitive | tennis | tennisens | — | — |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- tennis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tennis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tennis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)