tendo

See also: tendó

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tenda, English tent and French tente, voicing of the second -t- was preferred because tent- was taken by tenti.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtendo]
• Rhymes: -endo
• Hyphenation: ten‧do

Noun

tendo (accusative singular tendon, plural tendoj, accusative plural tendojn)

1. tent

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Galician

Verb

tendo

1. gerund of ter

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto tendo, English tent, French tente, Italian tenda, Spanish tienda, from Vulgar Latin *tenda, from Latin tendō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtendo/

Noun

tendo (plural tendi)

1. tent

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛndo
• Hyphenation: tèn‧do

Verb

tendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tendere

Anagrams

• tonde

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Latin

Alternative forms

• tennō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈten.doː/, [ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈten.do/, [ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪o]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *tend-, extension of Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Sihler traces the /d/ back to the ordinary present suffix -ye in position after *n (cf. offendō, dēfendō from *gʷʰen-ye-). Cognates include Ancient Greek τείνω (teínō), Sanskrit तनोति (tanóti) and Old English þennan.

Verb

tendō (present infinitive tendere, perfect active tetendī, supine tentum); third conjugation

1. To stretch, stretch out, distend, extend.
2. To direct one's self or one's course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one's course in any direction.

   Synonyms: lūctor, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, ēnītor, ēlabōrō, appetō, affectō, temptō, quaerō, studeō, contendō, adnītor, īnsequor, labōrō, pugnō, molior, perīclitor, nītor, spectō, intendō

   Antonyms: āversor, abhorreō, dēclīnō

3. To go, proceed, extend, stretch.
4. To aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction.
5. To exert one's self, to strive, endeavor.
6. (in particular) To exert one's self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend.
7. To set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp.
8. To speak to somebody.

Conjugation

• The supine form is either tentum or the later analogical tēnsum.

Conjugation of tendō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	tendō	tendis	tendit	tendimus	tenditis	tendunt
	imperfect	tendēbam	tendēbās	tendēbat	tendēbāmus	tendēbātis	tendēbant
	future	tendam	tendēs	tendet	tendēmus	tendētis	tendent
	perfect	tetendī	tetendistī	tetendit	tetendimus	tetendistis	tetendērunt, tetendēre
	pluperfect	tetenderam	tetenderās	tetenderat	tetenderāmus	tetenderātis	tetenderant
	future perfect	tetenderō	tetenderis	tetenderit	tetenderimus	tetenderitis	tetenderint
passive	present	tendor	tenderis, tendere	tenditur	tendimur	tendiminī	tenduntur
	imperfect	tendēbar	tendēbāris, tendēbāre	tendēbātur	tendēbāmur	tendēbāminī	tendēbantur
	future	tendar	tendēris, tendēre	tendētur	tendēmur	tendēminī	tendentur
	perfect	tentus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	tentus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	tentus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	tendam	tendās	tendat	tendāmus	tendātis	tendant
	imperfect	tenderem	tenderēs	tenderet	tenderēmus	tenderētis	tenderent
	perfect	tetenderim	tetenderīs	tetenderit	tetenderīmus	tetenderītis	tetenderint
	pluperfect	tetendissem	tetendissēs	tetendisset	tetendissēmus	tetendissētis	tetendissent
passive	present	tendar	tendāris, tendāre	tendātur	tendāmur	tendāminī	tendantur
	imperfect	tenderer	tenderēris, tenderēre	tenderētur	tenderēmur	tenderēminī	tenderentur
	perfect	tentus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	tentus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	tende	—	—	tendite	—
	future	—	tenditō	tenditō	—	tenditōte	tenduntō
passive	present	—	tendere	—	—	tendiminī	—
	future	—	tenditor	tenditor	—	—	tenduntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		tendere	tetendisse	tentūrum esse	tendī	tentum esse	tentum īrī
participles		tendēns	—	tentūrus	—	tentus	tendendus, tendundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		tendendī	tendendō	tendendum	tendendō	tentum	tentū

Derived terms

• attendō
• contendō
• detendō
• distendō
• extendō
• intendō
• obtendō
• ostendō
• pertendō
• portendō
• praetendō
• protendō
• retendō
• tēnsus

 

Related terms

• tendicula
• tendor
• tēnsiō
• tēnsūra
• tenta
• tentipellium

 

Descendants

Descendants of tendo in other languages

• Aromanian: tindu
• Asturian: tender
• Catalan: tendir
• English: tend, tense
• Franco-Provençal: tendre
• French: tendre
• Friulian: tindi
• Galician: tender
• Istriot: tendi
• Italian: tendere
• Occitan: ténder, tendre
• Piedmontese: tende
• Portuguese: tender
• Romanian: tinde
• Romansch: tender
• Sicilian: tènniri
• Spanish: tender
• Venetian: tender

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), with spelling influenced by tendō (verb).

Noun

tendō m (genitive tendōnis); third declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (anatomy) A tendon.

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tendō	tendōnēs
Genitive	tendōnis	tendōnum
Dative	tendōnī	tendōnibus
Accusative	tendōnem	tendōnēs
Ablative	tendōne	tendōnibus
Vocative	tendō	tendōnēs

Derived terms

• tendinōsus (adjective)

Descendants

• → English: tendon
• → French: tendon
  • → Romanian: tendon
  • →? Turkish: tendon
• → Galician: tendón
• → Portuguese: tendão
• → Spanish: tendón

References

• “tendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to journey towards a place: tendere aliquo
    
  • where are you going: quo tendis?
    
  • to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
    
  • to raise the hands to heaven (attitude of prayer): (supinas) manus ad caelum tendere
    

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.du/

Verb

tendo

1. gerund of ter

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Swahili

Etymology

From -tenda (“to act, to do”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

tendo (ma class, plural matendo)

1. deed, action, act