τένων

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Ancient Greek[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (to stretch); related to τείνω (teínō, to stretch).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Noun[edit]

τένων (ténōnm (genitive τένοντος); third declension

  1. tendon, sinew

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Greek: τένοντας (ténontas)
  • Latin: tenōn
  • Medieval Latin: tendō

Further reading[edit]

  • τένων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • τένων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • τένων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.