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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”); related to τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /té.nɔːn/ → /ˈte.non/ → /ˈte.non/
Noun
τένων • (ténōn) m (genitive τένοντος); third declension
- tendon, sinew
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “τένων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τένων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τένων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.