# tente
## Basque
### Noun

tente ?
* upright, standing

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtente]
* Rhymes: -ente
* Hyphenation: ten‧te

### Adverb

tente
* temptingly

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑ̃t/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑ̃t
* Homophones: tante, tantes, tentent, tentes

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French tente, possibly from Vulgar Latin *tenta, from the feminine of tentus, perfect passive participle of tendō, or alternatively from Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin tenda, itself possibly a contraction of *tendita, feminine of a variant Vulgar Latin participle *tenditus (instead of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō). Compare Italian and Portuguese tenda; Spanish tienda.

#### Noun

tente f (plural tentes)
* tent

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tente
* first/third-person singular present of tenter

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* nette

## Galician
### Verb

tente
* inflection of tentar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Hungarian
### Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛntɛ]
* Hyphenation: ten‧te
* Rhymes: -tɛ

### Interjection

tente
* (childish) rock-a-bye, hush, hushaby (used in quieting a baby to sleep)
    Tente, baba, tente. ― Hush, little baby.

### References

* ↑ tente in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* tente in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Latin
### Participle

tente
* vocative masculine singular of tentus

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

tente
* simple past of tenne

## Old French
### Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *tenta, from the feminine of tentus, perfect passive participle of tendō, or alternatively from Early Medieval Latin or Late Latin tenda, itself possibly a contraction of *tendita, feminine of a variant Vulgar Latin participle *tenditus (instead of tentus, perfect passive participle of Latin tendō).

### Noun

tente oblique singular, f (oblique plural tentes, nominative singular tente, nominative plural tentes)
* tent, temporary hut or other similar building

#### Usage notes

* There is no consensus what the difference between paveillon, tente and tref is in Old French. There may be no difference, or the difference may vary according to the author.

#### Descendants

* → Middle English: tente
** English: tent
*** → Russian: тент (tent)
* French: tente

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtẽ.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtẽ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtẽ.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtẽ.tɨ/
* Hyphenation: ten‧te
* Rhymes: -ẽtɨ, -ẽt͡ʃi

### Verb

tente
* inflection of tentar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

tente
* second-person singular imperative of tener combined with te

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تنته, from Italian tenda.

### Noun

tente (definite accusative tenteyi, plural tenteler)
* awning, marquee

#### Declension
### References

* “tente”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

## Venetan
### Adjective

tente
* feminine plural of tento