tenus

See also: ténus

Esperanto

Verb

tenus

1. conditional of teni

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French

Verb

tenus

1. masculine plural of the past participle of tenir

Anagrams

• suent, usent

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Ido

Verb

tenus

1. conditional of tenar

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.nus/, [ˈtɛ.nʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.nus/, [ˈteː.nus]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *tenos, from Proto-Indo-European *tén-os, from *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Compare Sanskrit तनस् (tánas), Ancient Greek τένος (ténos). More at teneō (“hold, grasp”).

Noun

tenus n (genitive tenoris); third declension

1. some sort of snare

Declension

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	tenus	tenora
genitive	tenoris	tenorum
dative	tenorī	tenoribus
accusative	tenus	tenora
ablative	tenore	tenoribus
vocative	tenus	tenora

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). The specific etymology is debated: De Vaan suggests that it is merely a petrified accusative of extent of the s-stem *tenos and rejects Meiser's suggestion that it stems from the Proto-Indo-European perfect participle *tn̥-wós.

Alternative forms

• -tenus (written without a space)

Postposition

tenus (with genitive and ablative)

1. (with genitive and ablative) Right up to, as far as, just as far as
2. (with ablative, of a process) Up to (a given stage of)
3. (with genitive and ablative, of limitation) To the maximum extent of, within
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Lengthwise, along

Derived terms

• aliquātenus
• eātenus
• hāctenus
• nullātenus
• ore tenus
• prōtinus, prōtenus
• quātenus

Descendants

• (perhaps) *ad tenus
  • Old Portuguese: até
    • Portuguese: até

References

• tĕnus¹ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tĕnus² in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tenus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “tenus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “1 tĕnŭs” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• “2 tĕnus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the water reaches to the waist: aqua est umbilīco tenus
    
• “tenus¹ ~oris” on page 2120/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “tenus²” on page 2120/2-3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “tenus” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995) Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers