# tendo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tenda, English tent and French tente, voicing of the second -t- was preferred because tent- was taken by tenti.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈtendo]
* Rhymes: -endo
* Hyphenation: ten‧do

### Noun

tendo (accusative singular tendon, plural tendoj, accusative plural tendojn)
* tent

## Galician
### Verb

tendo
* gerund of ter

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto tendo, English tent, French tente, Italian tenda, Spanish tienda, from Vulgar Latin *tenda, from Latin tendō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtendo/

### Noun

tendo (plural tendi)
* tent

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛn.do/
* Rhymes: -ɛndo
* Hyphenation: tèn‧do

### Verb

tendo
* first-person singular present indicative of tendere

### Anagrams

* tonde

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* tennō

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈten.doː/, [ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈten.do/, [ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪o]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ténd-e-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *tend-, extension of Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Sihler traces the /d/ back to the ordinary present suffix -ye in position after *n (cf. offendō, dēfendō from *gʷʰen-ye-). Cognates include Ancient Greek τείνω (teínō), Sanskrit तनोति (tanóti) and Old English þennan. The perfect stem, tetend-, is a combination of the present stem tend- and the Proto-Italic perfect stem teton-.

#### Verb

tendō (present infinitive tendere, perfect active tetendī, supine tentum or tēnsum); third conjugation
* to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend
* to direct one's self or one's course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one's course in any direction
    Synonyms: lūctor, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, ēnītor, ēlabōrō, appetō, affectō, temptō, quaerō, studeō, contendō, adnītor, īnsequor, labōrō, pugnō, molior, perīclitor, nītor, spectō, intendō
    Antonyms: āversor, abhorreō, dēclīnō
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.204–206:“Per variōs cāsūs, per tot discrīmina rērum, tendimus in Latium, sēdēs ubi fāta quiētās ostendunt; illīc fās rēgna resurgere Troiae.”“Through varied misfortunes, through so many hazards of circumstances, we aim our course into Latium, where the Fates reveal [to us a] peaceful homeland; there it is divine will that the kingdom of Troy shall rise again.”
* to go, proceed, extend, stretch
* to aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction
* to exert one's self, to strive, endeavor
** 29-19 BC, Virgil, Aeneid, volume II.220v:Ille (Laocoon) simul manibus tendit divellere nodos, [...]He (Laocoon) immediately endeavoured to loosen the knots fettering him with his hands, [...]
* (in particular) To exert one's self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend
* to set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp
* to speak to somebody
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##### Conjugation

* The supine form is either tentum or the later analogical tēnsum.

##### Derived terms

* attendō
* contendō
* detendō
* distendō
* extendō
* intendō
* obtendō
* ostendō
* pertendō
* portendō
* praetendō
* protendō
* retendō
* tēnsus

##### Related terms

* tendicula
* tendor
* tēnsiō
* tēnsūra
* tenta
* tentipellium
* tento

##### Descendants

* Aromanian: tindu
* Asturian: tender
* Catalan: tendir
* English: tend, tense
* Franco-Provençal: tendre
* French: tendre
* Friulian: tindi
* Galician: tender
* Istriot: tendi
* Italian: tendere
* Occitan: ténder, tendre
* Piedmontese: tende
* Portuguese: tender
* Romanian: tinde
* Romansch: tender
* Sicilian: tènniri
* Spanish: tender
* Venetan: tender

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), with spelling influenced by tendō (verb). Doublet of tenōn which was borrowed earlier.

#### Noun

tendō m (genitive tendinis); third declension (Medieval Latin)
* (anatomy) tendon

##### Inflection

Third-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* tendinōsus (adjective)

##### Descendants

* → English: tendon
* → French: tendon
** → Romanian: tendon
** →? Turkish: tendon
* → Galician: tendón
* → Italian: tendine
* → Portuguese: tendão
* → Spanish: tendón

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tendō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 612
* ↑ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 206

### Further reading

* “tendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “tendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* tendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to journey towards a place: tendere aliquo where are you going: quo tendis? to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere) to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere to raise the hands to heaven (attitude of prayer): (supinas) manus ad caelum tendere

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtẽ.du/

### Verb

tendo
* gerund of ter

### Verb

tendo
* first-person singular present indicative of tender

## Swahili
### Etymology

From -tenda (“to act, to do”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

tendo class V (plural matendo class VI)
* deed, action, act