tentus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of tendō.

Alternative forms

• tēnsus

Participle

tentus (feminine tenta, neuter tentum); first/second-declension participle

1. stretched; stretched out; extended; distended

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tentus	tenta	tentum		tentī	tentae	tenta
genitive	tentī	tentae	tentī		tentōrum	tentārum	tentōrum
dative	tentō	tentae	tentō		tentīs
accusative	tentum	tentam	tentum		tentōs	tentās	tenta
ablative	tentō	tentā	tentō		tentīs
vocative	tente	tenta	tentum		tentī	tentae	tenta

Descendants

• English: tent, tenure
• French: tente
• Aromanian: timtu

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of teneō.

Participle

tentus (feminine tenta, neuter tentum); first/second-declension participle

1. held

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tentus	tenta	tentum		tentī	tentae	tenta
genitive	tentī	tentae	tentī		tentōrum	tentārum	tentōrum
dative	tentō	tentae	tentō		tentīs
accusative	tentum	tentam	tentum		tentōs	tentās	tenta
ablative	tentō	tentā	tentō		tentīs
vocative	tente	tenta	tentum		tentī	tentae	tenta

Descendants

• Portuguese: tento

References

• “tentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tentus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.