tenio
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Classical teneō, with extensive influence from veniō (“come”, which would have sounded similar once unstressed prevocalic /e/ and /i/ both turned to /j/). Attested in the Formulae Marculfi.[1]
Verb[edit]
teniō (present infinitive tenīre, perfect active *tēnī, supine *tenūtum); fourth conjugation (Early Medieval Latin)
- Alternative form of teneō (“to have, to possess”)
Descendants[edit]
- see: teneō
References[edit]
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tĕnēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 13: T–Ti, page 223.