teso

See also: tesó and tesò

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɛ.zu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtɛ.zo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈte.zo]

Verb

teso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tesar

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tensus. Compare the borrowed doublet tenso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteso̝/

Noun

teso m (plural tesos)

1. hill; mountain; mountain top

   Synonyms: curuto, cotarelo

Adjective

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural tesas)

1. taut, tight, tense, stretched
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 342:

     Et acharom a seu señor Pyrrus moy malandante ẽna area, moy jnchado et tã teso que adur lles podo falar

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   Synonyms: irto, rexo, ríxido

2. stiff (formal in behavior; unrelaxed)

Derived terms

• entesar
• Teso

References

• “teso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “teso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “teso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “teso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “teso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.zo/, (traditional) /ˈte.so/
• Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
• Hyphenation: té‧so

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet tenso.

Adjective

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesi, feminine plural tese, superlative tesissimo)

1. taut, tight, tense, stretched
2. outstretched
3. tense, nervous, fraught, strained
4. (followed by a) aimed, intended

Derived terms

• tesare

Participle

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesi, feminine plural tese)

1. past participle of tendere

Etymology 2

Verb

teso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tesare

Anagrams

• esto, oste, stoe

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet of tenso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.zu/

• Hyphenation: te‧so

Adjective

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural tesas)

1. taut (pulled tight, as in a rope)

   Synonyms: retesado, esticado, tenso

2. firm
3. decided
4. impetuous
5. (informal) penniless

Derived terms

• entesar

Related terms

• tender
• tensão
• tesão

Noun

teso m (plural tesos)

1. steep mountain or hill
2. summit
3. (Brazil) elevated terrain

Further reading

• “teso” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteso/ [ˈt̪e.so]
• Rhymes: -eso
• Syllabification: te‧so

Etymology 1

Noun

teso m (plural tesos)

1. crest of a hill

Adjective

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural tesas)

1. (Colombia) smart; clever

Etymology 2

Verb

teso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tesar

Further reading

• “teso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014