tensura

Latin

Etymology

From tendō (“stretch, extend”) +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tenˈsuː.ra/, [t̪ẽːˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tenˈsu.ra/, [t̪enˈsuːrä]

Noun

tēnsūra f (genitive tēnsūrae); first declension

1. stretching, straining, tension

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tēnsūra	tēnsūrae
Genitive	tēnsūrae	tēnsūrārum
Dative	tēnsūrae	tēnsūrīs
Accusative	tēnsūram	tēnsūrās
Ablative	tēnsūrā	tēnsūrīs
Vocative	tēnsūra	tēnsūrae

Synonyms

• (stretching, straining): tendor

Related terms

Related terms

• tendicula
• tendō
• tendor
• tēnsiō
• tēnsus
• tentīgō
• tenta
• tentipellium
• tentō
• tentōrium

Descendants

• Portuguese: tesura
• Spanish: tesura

References

• “tensura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tensura 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)
• tensura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.