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Italian
Etymology
From Latin tenor, tenōrem (“a sustained, continuous course or movement, a continuity of events, conditions etc. or way of proceeding”), derived from teneō (“I hold”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /teˈno.re/
- Rhymes: -ore
- Hyphenation: te‧nó‧re
Noun
tenore m (plural tenori)
- way, manner
- (chemistry) the concentration of a substance
- (music):
- (archaic) tenor (musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody)
- Synonym: tenor
- (uncountable) tenor (musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto)
- tenor (person, instrument or group that performs in the tenor range)
c. 1344, Giovanni Boccaccio, Ninfale fiesolano, ossia L'innamoramento di Affrico e Mensola, section LVI (section 56), page 23; republished as Ninfale fiesolano di messer Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, 1851:Quando appressato fu a quel vallone
Alquanto udì un’angelica voce,
Con due tenori onde ascoltar si pone- When he arrived close to that valley, he heard an angelic voice, with two tenors; so he began to listen
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Latin
Noun
tenōre
- ablative singular of tenor