τένων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”); related to τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian тѐтива, Slovene tetiva (< Proto-Slavic *tętiva), Polish ścięgno.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

τένων • (ténōn) m (genitive τένοντος); third declension

  1. tendon, sinew

Declension

Third declension of ὁ τένων; τοῦ τένοντος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ τένων
ho ténōn 		τὼ τένοντε
tṑ ténonte 		οἱ τένοντες
hoi ténontes
Genitive τοῦ τένοντος
toû ténontos 		τοῖν τενόντοιν
toîn tenóntoin 		τῶν τενόντων
tôn tenóntōn
Dative τῷ τένοντῐ
tōî ténontĭ 		τοῖν τενόντοιν
toîn tenóntoin 		τοῖς τένουσῐ / τένουσῐν
toîs ténousĭ(n)
Accusative τὸν τένοντᾰ
tòn ténontă 		τὼ τένοντε
tṑ ténonte 		τοὺς τένοντᾰς
toùs ténontăs
Vocative τένον
ténon 		τένοντε
ténonte 		τένοντες
ténontes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: τένοντας (ténontas)
  • → Latin: tenōn
  • → Medieval Latin: tendō

Further reading

  • “τένων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • τένων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “τένων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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