tendo

See also: tendó and tendo-

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

Galician

Verb

tendo

1. gerund of ter

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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tendere

Anagrams

• tonde

Latin

Alternative forms

• tennō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛn.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛn̪.d̪o]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ténd-e-ti, 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. The perfect stem, tetend-, is a combination of the present stem tend- and the Proto-Italic perfect stem teton-.

Verb

tendō (present infinitive tendere, perfect active tetendī, supine tentum or tēnsum); 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

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.204–206:

     “Per variōs cāsūs, per tot discrīmina rērum,
     tendimus in Latium, sēdēs ubi fāta quiētās
     ostendunt; illīc fās rēgna resurgere Troiae.”

     “Through varied misfortunes, through so many hazards of circumstances, we aim our course into Latium, where the Fates reveal [to us a] peaceful homeland; there it is divine will that the kingdom of Troy shall rise again.”

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
   • 29-19 BC, Virgil, Aeneid, volume II.220v:

     Ille (Laocoon) simul manibus tendit divellere nodos, [...]

     He (Laocoon) immediately endeavoured to loosen the knots fettering him with his hands, [...]

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 or tēnsus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	tentus or tēnsus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	tentus or tēnsus + 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 or tēnsus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	tentus or tēnsus + 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		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		tendere			tendī			tendēns			—
future		tentūrum esse, tēnsūrum esse			tentum īrī, tēnsum īrī			tentūrus, tēnsūrus			tendendus, tendundus
perfect		tetendisse			tentum esse, tēnsum esse			—			tentus, tēnsus
future perfect		—			tentum fore, tēnsum fore			—			—
perfect potential		tentūrum fuisse, tēnsūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		tendendī		tendendō		tendendum		tendendō		tentum, tēnsum		tentū, tēnsū

Derived terms

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

Related terms

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

Descendants

Descendants

• 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
• Venetan: tender

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), with spelling influenced by tendō (verb). Doublet of tenōn which was borrowed earlier.

Noun

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

2. (anatomy) tendon

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tendō	tendinēs
genitive	tendinis	tendinum
dative	tendinī	tendinibus
accusative	tendinem	tendinēs
ablative	tendine	tendinibus
vocative	tendō	tendinēs

Derived terms

• tendinōsus (adjective)

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “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
    

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.du/

Verb

tendo

1. gerund of ter

Verb

tendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tender

Swahili

Etymology

From -tenda (“to act, to do”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

tendo class V (plural matendo class VI)

1. deed, action, act