English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin tenet (“he holds”), from teneō (“hold; have”)
Pronunciation[edit]
tenet (plural tenets)
- An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
Translations[edit]
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)
- Esperanto: dogmo
- Finnish: dogmi (fi), opinkappale
- French: principe (fr) m; croyance (fr) f, dogme (fr) m
- Galician: principio m
- German: Dogma (de) n, Grundsatz (de) m, Glaubenssatz m, Theorem (de) n, Grundregel (de) f
- Greek: δόγμα (el) n (dógma)
- Italian: principio (it) m, fondamento (it) m, cardine (it) m
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- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grunnsetning (no) m, f, dogme n, prinsipp (no) n
- Nynorsk: grunnsetning (no) f, dogme n, prinsipp (no) n
- Persian: اصل (fa) (asl)
- Polish: zasada (pl) f, dogmat (pl) m
- Portuguese: dogma (pt) m
- Russian: до́гмат (ru) m (dógmat), 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
- Tagalog: turo (tl)
- Turkish: ilke (tr), kuram (tr), öğreti (tr)
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tenet
- third-person singular present active indicative of teneō
