tenda

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin tenda, from Latin *tendita, from Latin tentus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

tenda f (plural tendes)

1. tent
2. shop

   Synonym: botiga

• “tenda” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tenda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tenda” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tenda” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Spanish tienda, from Vulgar Latin *tenda, from tendere.

tenda

1. store, shop

From Old Galician-Portuguese tenda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin tenda, from Vulgar Latin *tendita, substantivized feminine of *tenditus, as a variant form of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnda̝/, /ˈtenda̝/
• Rhymes: -ɛndɐ, -endɐ
• Hyphenation: ten‧da

tenda m (plural tendas)

1. tent
   • 1460, Rui Vasques, edited by J. A. Souto Cabo, Coronica de Iria, page 133:

     Et nõ poderõ entrar a çibdade porlla fortolleza do lugar et dos nobres caballeyros que ende estauã, et çessarõ de conbater et poseron ende suas tendas en derredor.

     But they couldn't enter the city because of the strength of the place and of the noble knights who were there, and so they stopped fighting and put their tents around

2. store, shop, workshop, stall
   • 1335, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 463:

     que den a uos Eluira Perez en uossa vida de tres en tres annos çinquo varas de valacyna noua ou os dineiros para ella, quantos ella custar enna tenda

     they should give you, Elvira Pérez, throughout your life each three years, five yards of new Valencian cloth or the money for them, whatever it costs in the store

   • 1418, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 124:

     quaesquer que tẽe tendas enna dita porta e portal dos Oulives que as non posan tẽer çarradas salvo dous dias santos a par e qualquer que a tever çarrada mais que dous dias enna semana continuus que perga o dereito que ouver enna tenda

     anyone having shop at that gate and portal of the goldsmiths shall not close it except for two holidays in a row, and anyone who close it more than two consecutive days in a week shall lose any right they have to the shop

   • 1418, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 149:

     que nehũu ourives non fose ousado de tẽer forja nen forjaron en sua casa et que todos lavrasen ennas ditas tendas e portales, segundo que senpre foron acostumados

     no goldsmith should dare to have a forge inside his house, and every one of them shall work at his shops and portals, as it always was their use

• tendal
• tendeiro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tenda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tenda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tenda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tenda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tenda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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tenda (dependent form renda, third-person possessed form henda)

1. place

From Portuguese tenda, from Vulgar Latin tenda, or *tendita, substantivized feminine of *tenditus, as a variant form of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō.

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• Hyphenation: tèn‧da

tenda (plural tenda-tenda)

1. tent: a pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.

   Synonym: kemah

2. ceiling

   Synonym: langit-langit

3. hood, bonnet: the hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle.

   Synonym: kap

• “tenda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.da/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnda
• Hyphenation: tèn‧da

From a Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin tenda, from Vulgar Latin *tendita, substantivized feminine of *tenditus, as a variant form of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō. Compare Portuguese tenda, Spanish tienda, French tente, Friulian tinde, Romanian tindă.

tenda f (plural tende)

1. tent
2. curtain, blind, shade

   Synonyms: tappezzeria, tendone

3. awning, sunshade, sunblind

   Synonym: tenda da sole

• tendere

• → Ottoman Turkish: تنته (tente)
  • Turkish: tente
  • → Armenian: թէնթէ (tʻēntʻē)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tenda

1. inflection of tendere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Dante, dante

From contraction of a Vulgar Latin *tendita, feminine of *tenditus, as a variant form of tentus, possibly as a substantivation of tenta (“stretched cloth”).

tenda f

1. (Late Latin, Early Medieval Latin)^[1] area covered by cloth or awning, such as a tent

• tentorium, tabernaculum

tenda

1. (anatomy) throat

• Rhymes: -ẽdɐ
• Hyphenation: ten‧da

From a Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin tenda, from Vulgar Latin *tendita, substantivized feminine of *tenditus, as a variant form of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō. Compare Italian tenda, Spanish tienda, French tente.

tenda f (plural tendas)

1. tent

• tender

• → Malay: tenda
  • → Indonesian: tenda

tenda

1. inflection of tender:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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-tenda (infinitive kutenda)

1. to act, to carry out
2. to do

   Synonym: -fanya

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -tendea
  • Passive: -tendwa (“to be done”)
  • Stative: -tendeka (“to be done”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • kitendo (“an action”)
  • mtendaji (“an executive”)
  • tendo (“deed, action”)
  • utendaji (“action, performance, accomplishment”)

Borrowed from English tender.

tenda class IX (plural tenda class X)

1. tender, bid

tenda

1. to believe in

• lutendo