tensa

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See also: tensá

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Pronunciation

Adjective

tensa

  1. feminine singular of tens

Chamicuro

Noun

tensa

  1. milk

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *ten-s-ā, from Proto-Indo-European *ten-s-eh₂, *tn̥-s-eh₂, from *ten- (to stretch, to extend). See teneō.

Noun

tēnsa f (genitive tēnsae); first declension

  1. the chariot or car on which the images of the gods were borne in the Circensian games
  2. (in general) a carriage
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Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tēnsa tēnsae
Genitive tēnsae tēnsārum
Dative tēnsae tēnsīs
Accusative tēnsam tēnsās
Ablative tēnsā tēnsīs
Vocative tēnsa tēnsae

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

tēnsa

  1. inflection of tēnsus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

tēnsā

  1. ablative feminine singular of tēnsus

References

  • tensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tensa 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)
  • tensa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • tensa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Anagrams

Portuguese

Adjective

tensa

  1. feminine singular of tenso

Spanish

Adjective

tensa

  1. feminine singular of tenso

Verb

tensa

  1. inflection of tensar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative