tensa

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

tensa

1. feminine singular of tens

tensa

1. milk

• tēnsa: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• tēnsa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):
• tēnsā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• tēnsā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

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

tēnsa f (genitive tēnsae); first declension

1. the chariot or car on which the images of the gods were borne in the Circensian games
   • 1^th c. BCE, Titus Livius, book V. 41., in Ab Urbe Condita:

     Qui eorum (seniorum) curules gesserant magistratus, ut in fortunae pristinae honorumque ac virtutis insignibus morerentur, quae augustissima vestis est tensas ducentibus triumphantibusve, ea vestiti medio aedium eburneis sellis sedere.

     Those of which (of the elderly) who once held curule magistracies, that they may meet an end becoming their ancient worth, wearing the garment awarded to one who drove the tensae or has been given the honor of a triumph, sat in the middle of their houses on ivory chairs.

2. (in general) a carriage

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First-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tēnsa

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

tēnsā

1. ablative feminine singular of tēnsus

• “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

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tensa

1. feminine singular of tenso

tensa

1. feminine singular of tenso

tensa

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