tenon

English

Etymology

From Middle English tenoun, from Middle French tenon, from Old French tenon.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnən

Noun

tenon (plural tenons)

1. A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.

Derived terms

• tenon saw

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榫頭 (zh), 榫头 (zh) (sǔntou), 凸榫 (tūsǔn), 接榫 (jiēsǔn)

• Finnish: tappi (fi), vaarna (fi)
• French: tenon (fr) m

• German: Zapfen (de)
• Japanese: ほぞ (ja) (hozo)
• Maori: arero
• Russian: ца́пфа (ru) f (cápfa), шип (ru) m (šip), вту́лка (ru) f (vtúlka)
• Welsh: tyno m

See also

• mortise-and-tenon joint

Verb

tenon (third-person singular simple present tenons, present participle tenoning, simple past and past participle tenoned)

1. (transitive) To make into a tenon.

   First we'll tenon this part, then we'll make a mortise that will fit it on that part.

2. (transitive) To fit with tenons.

Anagrams

• Tenno, nonet, tenno, tonne

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French

Etymology

From ten(ir) +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tənɔ ̃/

Noun

tenon m (plural tenons)

1. tenon

Further reading

• “tenon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.noːn/, [ˈtɛ.noːn]

Noun

tenōn m (genitive tenōntis); third declension

1. (anatomy) A tendon, nerve

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tenōn	tenōntēs
Genitive	tenōntis	tenōntum
Dative	tenōntī	tenōntibus
Accusative	tenōntem	tenōntēs
Ablative	tenōnte	tenōntibus
Vocative	tenōn	tenōntēs

References

• tenon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French tenon.

Noun

tenon

1. Alternative form of tenoun

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin tenōn.

Noun

tenon

1. Alternative form of thenoun