tenens
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of teneō (“to hold, have”).
Participle
tenēns (genitive tenentis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | tenēns | tenentēs | tenentia | ||
Genitive | tenentis | tenentium | |||
Dative | tenentī | tenentibus | |||
Accusative | tenentem | tenēns | tenentēs tenentīs |
tenentia | |
Ablative | tenente tenentī1 |
tenentibus | |||
Vocative | tenēns | tenentēs | tenentia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants
Further reading
- tenens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Swedish
Noun
tenens