tenet

English

Etymology

Latin tenet (“he holds”), from teneō (“hold; have”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnɪt

Noun

tenet (plural tenets)

1. An opinion, belief, or principle held to be true by someone or especially an organization.

Translations

an opinion, belief or principle

• Bulgarian: догма (bg) f (dogma), догма (bg) class догми (dogma) (formally)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原理 (zh) (yuánlǐ), 信條 (zh), 信条 (zh) (xìntiáo)

• Dutch: dogma (nl), grondregel (nl), overtuiging (nl), stelling (nl)
• Finnish: dogmi (fi), opinkappale
• French: dogme (fr) m, règle de base f, conviction (fr) f, théorème (fr) m
• German: Dogma (de) n, Grundsatz m, Glaubenssatz m, Theorem (de) n, Grundregel (de) f
• Greek: δόγμα (el) n (dógma)

• Norwegian: dogme n, læresetning f, prinsipp (no) n
• Persian: اصل (fa) (asl)
• Portuguese: dogma (pt) m
• Russian: догма́т (ru) m (dogmát), доктри́на (ru) f (doktrína), при́нцип (ru) m (príncip)
• Spanish: creencia (es) f, principio (es) m, dogma (es) m
• Swedish: grundsats (sv) c, dogm (sv) c
• Turkish: ilke (tr), kuram (tr), öğreti (tr)

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Latin

Verb

tenet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of teneō