Tenor

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See also: tenor, tenór, and ténor

German

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Etymology 1

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From Middle High German tenōr, from Italian tenore, from Latin tenor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /teˈnoːr/, [teˈnoːɐ̯], [teˈnoːr]

Noun

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Tenor m (strong, genitive Tenors or Tenores, plural Tenöre or Tenore)

  1. (music) tenor
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin tenor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈteːnoːr/, [ˈteːnoːɐ̯], [ˈteːnoːr]

Noun

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Tenor m (strong, genitive Tenors, no plural)

  1. essence of argumentation, tenor (tone, as of a conversation)
  2. (law, Germany, sometimes Austria) operative part of a court order
    Synonyms: (Germany) Entscheidungsformel, (Switzerland) Dispositiv, (Austria) Urteilsspruch
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Further reading

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  • Tenor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Tenor” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Tenor” in Duden online
  • Tenor on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de