tenus

See also: ténus

Esperanto

Verb

tenus

1. conditional of teni

French

Participle

tenus m pl

1. masculine plural of tenu

Anagrams

• suent, usent

Ido

Verb

tenus

1. conditional of tenar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈte.nus/, [ˈt̪ɛnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.nus/, [ˈt̪ɛːnus]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *tenos, from Proto-Indo-European *ténos, from *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Cognate with Sanskrit तनस् (tánas), Ancient Greek *τένος (*ténos) (attested in ἀτενής (atenḗs)), also with German Dohne which has the same meaning. More at teneō (“hold, grasp”).

Noun

tenus n (genitive tenoris); third declension

1. some sort of snare or trap

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

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-Italic *tenos, 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 (suffixed)

Postposition

tenus (with genitive and ablative)

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

Derived terms

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

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
• tenus 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)
• tĕnŭs 1 tĕnŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• tĕnus 2 tĕnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• 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