tente

See also: tenté

Basque

Noun

tente ?

1. upright, standing

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtente/
• Rhymes: -ente
• Hyphenation: ten‧te

Adverb

tente

1. temptingly

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃t/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃t
• Homophones: tante, tantes, tentent, tentes

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French tente, possibly from Vulgar Latin *tenta, from the feminine of tentus, perfect passive participle of tendō, or alternatively from Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin 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 and 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• nette

Galician

Verb

tente

1. inflection of tentar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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 Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Latin

Participle

tente

1. vocative masculine singular of tentus

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tente

1. simple past of tenne

Old French

Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *tenta, from the feminine of tentus, perfect passive participle of tendō, or alternatively from Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin 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 oblique singular, 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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.tɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽti, -ẽt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ẽtɨ
• Hyphenation: ten‧te

Verb

tente

1. inflection of tentar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

tente

1. second-person singular imperative of tener combined with te

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تنته, from Italian tenda.

Noun

tente (definite accusative tenteyi, plural tenteler)

1. awning, marquee

Declension

Declension of tente

singular plural nominative tente tenteler definite accusative tenteyi tenteleri dative tenteye tentelere locative tentede tentelerde ablative tenteden tentelerden genitive tentenin tentelerin Possessive forms nominative 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 definite accusative singular plural 1st singular tentemi tentelerimi 2nd singular tenteni tentelerini 3rd singular tentesini tentelerini 1st plural tentemizi tentelerimizi 2nd plural tentenizi tentelerinizi 3rd plural tentelerini tentelerini dative singular plural 1st singular tenteme tentelerime 2nd singular tentene tentelerine 3rd singular tentesine tentelerine 1st plural tentemize tentelerimize 2nd plural tentenize tentelerinize 3rd plural tentelerine tentelerine locative singular plural 1st singular tentemde tentelerimde 2nd singular tentende tentelerinde 3rd singular tentesinde tentelerinde 1st plural tentemizde tentelerimizde 2nd plural tentenizde tentelerinizde 3rd plural tentelerinde tentelerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular tentemden tentelerimden 2nd singular tentenden tentelerinden 3rd singular tentesinden tentelerinden 1st plural tentemizden tentelerimizden 2nd plural tentenizden tentelerinizden 3rd plural tentelerinden tentelerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular tentemin tentelerimin 2nd singular tentenin tentelerinin 3rd singular tentesinin tentelerinin 1st plural tentemizin tentelerimizin 2nd plural tentenizin tentelerinizin 3rd plural tentelerinin tentelerinin

References

• “tente”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Venetan

Adjective

tente

1. feminine plural of tento