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Pronunciation
Adjective
tensa
- feminine singular of tens
Chamicuro
Noun
tensa
- 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
- the chariot or car on which the images of the gods were borne in the Circensian games
- (in general) a carriage
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Inflection
First-declension noun.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
tēnsa
- inflection of tēnsus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
tēnsā
- 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
- feminine singular of tenso
Spanish
Adjective
tensa
- feminine singular of tenso
Verb
tensa
- inflection of tensar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative