tenus

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See also: ténus

Esperanto

Verb

tenus

  1. conditional of teni

French

Participle

tenus m pl

  1. masculine plural of tenu

Anagrams

Ido

Verb

tenus

  1. conditional of tenar

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *tenos, from Proto-Indo-European *ténos, from *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Cognate with Sanskrit तनस् (tánas), Ancient Greek *τένος (*ténos) (attested in ἀτενής (atenḗs)), also with German Dohne which has the same meaning. More at teneō (“hold, grasp”).

Noun

tenus n (genitive tenoris); third declension

  1. some sort of snare or trap
Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tenus tenora
Genitive tenoris tenorum
Dative tenorī tenoribus
Accusative tenus tenora
Ablative tenore tenoribus
Vocative tenus tenora

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *tenos, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). The specific etymology is debated: De Vaan suggests that it is merely a petrified accusative of extent of the s-stem *tenos and rejects Meiser's suggestion that it stems from the Proto-Indo-European perfect participle *tn̥-wós.

Alternative forms

Postposition

tenus (with genitive and ablative)

  2. (with genitive and ablative) Right up to, as far as, just as far as
  3. (with ablative, of a process) Up to (a given stage of)
  4. (with genitive and ablative, of limitation) To the maximum extent of, within
  5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Lengthwise, along
Derived terms
Descendants
  • (perhaps) *ad tenus
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: até

References

  • “tĕnus1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tĕnus2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tenus 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)
  • tĕnŭs 1 tĕnŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • tĕnus 2 tĕnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the water reaches to the waist: aqua est umbilīco tenus
  • “tenus1 ~oris” on page 2120/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  • “tenus2” on page 2120/2-3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  • The template Template:R:Stelten does not use the parameter(s): 
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “teneō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 612-613
  2. ^ Gerhard Meiser (1998) Laut-und Formenlehre der lateinischen Sprache. Darmstadt. page 183.
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