tente

See also: tenté

Basque

Noun

tente ?

1. upright, standing

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Esperanto

Adverb

tente

1. temptingly

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃t/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃t

Etymology 1

From Old French tente, possibly from Vulgar Latin *tenta, from the feminine of tentus, perfect passive participle of tendō, or alternatively from *tenda, itself possibly a contraction of *tendita, feminine of a variant Vulgar Latin participle *tenditus (instead of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō). Compare Italian tenda, Portuguese tenda, Spanish tienda.

Noun

tente f (plural tentes)

1. tent

Etymology 2

Verb

tente

1. first/third-person singular present of tenter

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• nette

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Hungarian

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛntɛ]
• Hyphenation: ten‧te
• Rhymes: -tɛ

Interjection

tente

1. (childish) rock-a-bye, hush, hushaby (used in quieting a baby to sleep)

   Tente, baba, tente. ― Hush, little baby.

Further reading

• tente in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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Latin

Participle

tente

1. vocative masculine singular of tentus

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tente

1. simple past of tenne

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Old French

Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *tenta, from the feminine of tentus, perfect passive participle of tendō, or alternatively from *tenda, itself possibly a contraction of *tendita, feminine of a variant Vulgar Latin participle *tenditus (instead of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō).

Noun

tente f (oblique plural tentes, nominative singular tente, nominative plural tentes)

1. tent, temporary hut or other similar building

Usage notes

• There is no consensus what the difference between paveillon, tente and tref is in Old French. There may be no difference, or the difference may vary according to the author.

Descendants

• → Middle English: tente
  • English: tent
    • → Russian: тент (tent)
• French: tente

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Portuguese

Verb

tente

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of tentar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of tentar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of tentar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of tentar

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Turkish

Etymology

From Italian tenda

Noun

tente (definite accusative tenteyi, plural tenteler)

1. awning, marquee

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tente
Definite accusative	tenteyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tente	tenteler
Definite accusative	tenteyi	tenteleri
Dative	tenteye	tentelere
Locative	tentede	tentelerde
Ablative	tenteden	tentelerden
Genitive	tentenin	tentelerin
Possessive forms Singular Plural 1st singular tentem tentelerim 2nd singular tenten tentelerin 3rd singular tentesi tenteleri 1st plural tentemiz tentelerimiz 2nd plural tenteniz tenteleriniz 3rd plural tenteleri tenteleri

References

• tente in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

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Venetian

Adjective

tente

1. feminine plural of tento