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Basque
Noun
tente ?
- upright, standing
Esperanto
Adverb
tente
- temptingly
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French tente, possibly from Vulgar Latin *tenta, from the feminine of tentus, perfect passive participle of tendō, or alternatively from Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin tenda, itself possibly a contraction of *tendita, feminine of a variant Vulgar Latin participle *tenditus (instead of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō). Compare Italian and Portuguese tenda; Spanish tienda.
Noun
tente f (plural tentes)
- tent
Etymology 2
Verb
tente
- first/third-person singular present of tenter
Further reading
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
tente
- inflection of tentar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Hungarian
Etymology
An onomatopoeia.[1]
Pronunciation
Interjection
tente
- (childish) rock-a-bye, hush, hushaby (used in quieting a baby to sleep)
- Tente, baba, tente. ― Hush, little baby.
References
Further reading
- tente in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Latin
Participle
tente
- vocative masculine singular of tentus
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
tente
- simple past of tenne
Old French
Etymology
Possibly from Vulgar Latin *tenta, from the feminine of tentus, perfect passive participle of tendō, or alternatively from Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin tenda, itself possibly a contraction of *tendita, feminine of a variant Vulgar Latin participle *tenditus (instead of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō).
Noun
tente oblique singular, f (oblique plural tentes, nominative singular tente, nominative plural tentes)
- tent, temporary hut or other similar building
Usage notes
- There is no consensus what the difference between paveillon, tente and tref is in Old French. There may be no difference, or the difference may vary according to the author.
Descendants
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Verb
tente
- inflection of tentar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
tente
- second-person singular imperative of tener combined with te
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تنته, from Italian tenda.
Noun
tente (definite accusative tenteyi, plural tenteler)
- awning, marquee
Declension
References
- “tente”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Venetan
Adjective
tente
- feminine plural of tento