# tendre
## English
### Adjective

tendre (comparative more tendre, superlative most tendre)
* Obsolete form of tender.

### Verb

tendre (third-person singular simple present tendres, present participle tendring, simple past and past participle tendred)
* Obsolete form of tender.

### Noun

tendre (plural tendres)
* (archaic) Tender feeling or fondness; affection.
** 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre […]
** 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.

### Anagrams

* enter'd, entred, rented, tender

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan tendre, from older tenre (with epenthesis), from Latin tener (“soft, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Compare Occitan tèndre, French tendre, Spanish tierno.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛn.dɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtɛn.dɾe]

#### Adjective

tendre (feminine tendra, masculine and feminine plural tendres)
* soft, tender
* charming

##### Derived terms

* entendrir
* tendrement

##### Related terms

* tendresa

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin tenēre, with a change in verb class.

#### Verb

tendre
* (Alghero) Alternative form of tenir

### References

* “tendre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “tendre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “tendre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “tendre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑ̃dʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French tendre, from Latin tenerum, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

#### Adjective

tendre (plural tendres)
* tender (soft, delicate)

##### Related terms

* tendresse

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French tendre, from Latin tendere.

#### Verb

tendre
* (transitive) to tighten
* (transitive) to stretch out
* (intransitive) to tend [with vers ‘towards’]
    tendre vers l’infini ― to tend to infinity
* (intransitive) to strive [with vers ‘for’]
* (reflexive) to become taut

##### Derived terms

* hypertendre
* supertendre
* tendre la perche
* tendre les bras
* tendre l’autre joue
* tendre l’oreille
* tendre une perche
* tendu
* ultratendre

##### Related terms

* tente
* tension
* toise

### Further reading

* “tendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* redent

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French tendre.

#### Adjective

tendre
* tender (soft, delicate)
** 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 6-7.
    The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Descendants

* Scots: tender
* English: tender

### Etymology 2

From Old English tynder.

#### Noun

tendre
* Alternative form of tinder

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum.

### Adjective

tendre m or f
* (Jersey) tender

## Old French
### Etymology 1

From Latin tenerum, accusative of tener.

#### Adjective

tendre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tendre)
* tender (soft, delicate)

### Etymology 2

From Latin tendere.

#### Verb

tendre
* (transitive) to stretch

##### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

##### Descendants

* French: tendre
* Norman: tendre