ten

Borrowed from English ten.

• Ten, TEN

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛn]

ten

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 10, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

ten

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tama (Colombia).

English numbers ^(edit)

		100
←  1	←  9	10	11  →	20  →
		1
Cardinal: ten     Ordinal: tenth     Abbreviated ordinal: 10th     Latinate ordinal: denary     Adverbial: ten times     Multiplier: tenfold     Latinate multiplier: decuple     Germanic collective: tensome     Collective of n parts: decuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: decad, decade     Metric collective prefix: deca-     Greek collective prefix: deca-     Latinate collective prefix: deca-     Fractional: tenth     Metric fractional prefix: deci-     Elemental: decuplet     Number of musicians: decet     Number of years: decade, decennium

PIE word
*déḱm̥

From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tĕn IPA^(key): /tɛn/, [tʰɛn]
• IPA^(key): /tɪn/ (pin–pen merger)

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• Rhymes: -ɛn, (pin–pen merger) -ɪn
• Homophone: tin (pin–pen merger)

ten

2. The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sayings of Slid (whose Soul is by the Sea)”, in The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 15:

     There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “What is a Ten Frame and why is it a useful tool for developing early number relationships and fact fluency?”, in Rhodes University‎^[1], page 1:

     A ten frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.

• tenth

ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)

1. A set or group with ten elements.

   We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.

   • 1958 May, Carolyn J. Ingham, Joseph N. Payne, “An eighth-grade unit on number systems”, in The Mathematics Teacher, volume 51, number 5, page 392:

     They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “What is a Ten Frame and why is it a useful tool for developing early number relationships and fact fluency?”, in Rhodes University‎^[2], page 1:

     Understanding that numbers are composed of tens and ones is an important foundational concept, setting the stage for work with larger numbers.

2. (in the plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.

   Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.

   tens of thousands of voters

3. (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
4. (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.

   Synonym: tenner

   Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

5. (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.

   Synonym: dime piece

   • 2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Chris, 22:22 from the start, in Penn Radio‎^[3]:

     I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us.

   • 2023 September 11, Danielle Cohen, “Why Am I Attracted to My Coworker? Meet ‘The Office Ten’”, in New York Magazine‎^[4]:

     An Office Ten is a person who falls somewhere between average to mildly good-looking in the world at large but skyrockets to wildly attractive within the confines of an open-concept desk plan.

6. (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (countable, rowing) The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
   • 1911, The Cambridge Review, volume 32, page 486:

     At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power.

   • 1982, Stanley French, Aspects of Downing history, page 105:

     Morris gave a ten, and an unbelievable surge ran through the boat, one that I had never felt before.

• Previous: nine (9)
• Next: eleven (11)

• (prefix): deca-, deka-
• (adjective): decadal, decenary
• (a set of 10 items): decimate, decimal; decaplet, decuplet (of babies, musical notes, or baryons)
• (containing 10 items): decenary
• (related to base-10 numeration): See decimal
• (period of 10 months): decimestrial
• (period of 10 years): See decade and decennium
• (related to a 10-year period): See decadal and decennial
• (10-year anniversary): See decennial
• (rule by 10 people): See decemvirate
• (commander of 10 soldiers): See decener
• (chief of 10 men in early English law): See tithingman
• (payment or collection of a 10% tax): See tithe

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three, trey	four, cater	five, cinque	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack, knave	queen	king	joker

• Net, net, ent, NET, -ent, .NET, ENT, Ent, ent-

From English ten.

• IPA^(key): /ten/

ten (Bengali script তেন)

• chyigyk
• dys / das

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

Bislama cardinal numbers

<  9	10	11  >
Cardinal : ten

From English ten.

ten

1. ten

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈten]
• Rhymes: -en

ten

1. second-person singular imperative of tenir
2. second-person singular imperative of tindre

Generally, the imperative form ten is a contextual form of té used when clitic pronouns (e.g., te) are attached to the end of the verb.

ten

1. hard mutation of den
2. mixed mutation of den

Inherited from Old Czech ten, from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛn]

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ten

1. the, this, that

• “ten”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “ten”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “ten”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Old Norse teinn (“stick”).

ten

1. a spindle; a rod or stick used together with a distaff to spin yarn
2. in a spinning wheel or similar machine: the reel on which the finished yarn is spooled

• håndten (“manual spindle”)

• “ten” in Den Danske Ordbog

A contraction of te + den. Compare German zum.

• IPA^(key): /tɛn/

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ten

1. to the, at the (followed by a masculine or neuter word)

   ten goede of ten kwade ― for better or for worse

   ten dele ― partly

   ten tijde van ― during the time of

ten is part of many fossilized idiomatic expressions. Being derived in part from te, it is followed by the (similarly fossilized) dative case.

ten is commonly used in Dutch family names such as Corrie ten Boom, Bernhard ten Brink, Marti ten Kate, and Simeon ten Holt.

• ter

• ent, net

• tem (Reintegrationist)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛŋ/ [ˈt̪ɛŋ]
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ
• Hyphenation: ten

ten

1. has; third-person singular present indicative of ter

   A cervexa ten en Galicia unha longa historia.

   Beer has a long history in Galicia.

2. inflection of ter:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “ter”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ten”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ter”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ten”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

ten

1. Rōmaji transcription of てん
2. Rōmaji transcription of テン

From Portuguese ter.

ten

1. to have
2. to possess

From Ultimately from Middle Chinese 等 (MC tojX|tongX, “to equate”).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (teŋ, “equal, equivalent, appropriate”); Crimean Tatar teñ, Karachay-Balkar тенг (teñ), Kumyk тенг (teñ), Urum тэнг (teŋ), Kazakh тең (teñ, “equal”), Southern Altai теҥ (teŋ, “equal”) Uzbek teng (“equal”), Turkish denk (“equal, equivalent”), Shor тең, Yakut тэҥ (teñ, “equal”).

ten

1. equal

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ten”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: ten

ten

1. this (nearby)

• Stefan Ramułt (1893) “ten”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 213
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “ten”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[5]
• “ten”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

ten

1. there

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

• IPA^(key): [tɛn]

ten (feminine ta, neuter to, dual tej, plural te)

1. this

ten

1. contraction of te den

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

		100
[a], [b] ←  1	←  9	10	11  →	20  →
		1[a], [b]
Cardinal: ten     Ordinal: tenthe, tithe

From Old English tīen.

• tene, tenne, tien

• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /teːn/
• IPA^(key): /tɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

ten

1. ten

• -tene
• tenthe, tithe
• -ty

• English: ten
• Scots: ten
• Yola: dhen

• “ten, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English tēon, from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan (“to pull, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).

• teen, tene

ten (third-person singular simple present teth, present participle teende, teynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tegh, past participle towen)

1. (transitive) To draw; lead.
2. (intransitive) To draw away; go; proceed.

• biteon
• forten

From Old Norse tennr, nominative indefinite plural of tǫnn (“tooth”).

ten

1. plural of tothe

From Arabic طَعْن (ṭaʕn, “piercing, attack, criticism”).

• IPA^(key): /tɛn/

ten m or f

1. scolding, reproach, censure, blame, criticism, mockery, ridicule
2. threat

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “ten”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[6], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 604

• tet

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈtɛn/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈtɛn/

ten

1. this (nearby)

• Czech: ten

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “ten”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

• tēne, tȳn, tīen
• tȳn, tīen — West Saxon

See tien

• IPA^(key): /teːn/

tēn

1. (Mercian)

• A. L. Mayhew, M. A. Synopsis of Old English Phonology, 123

• tet

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /tɛn/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /tɛn/

ten

1. this (nearby)

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

• Polish: ten
• Silesian: tyn

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “ten”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ̃n]
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃n
• Hyphenation: ten

ten

1. (used with the verb 'e) to be firm, fixed, or snug (literally, “to make a "ten" sound”)

   Ten a'é.^[1] ― I am firm. (literally, “I make a "ten" sound.”)

   Ten aîmo'e.^[2] ― I firm it up. (literally, “I make it make a "ten" sound.”)

From Proto-Nahuan *teːn-, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïni. Compare Classical Nahuatl tēntli (“lips”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /teːŋ/
• (Izalco) IPA^(key): /teŋ/

-tēn (plural -tejtēn)

1. mouth

   Muchi tikishtukak tik muten kwak tishulutzin katka

   You used to put everything in your mouth when you were a little baby

2. edge, brim

   Shiktema ishta ma ne at ajsi ne iten ne tzutzukul

   Fill it up until the water reaches the edge of the jug

3. opening

   Inat ka ini tepet kishtia pukti tik iten

   They say this volcano expels smoke form its “opening” (its crater)

-tēn

1. on the edge, outside

   Tejchishket ka iten ne shaput

   They waited outside the cave

Inherited from Old Polish ten. Cognate with Russian тот (tot), Lithuanian tas, Ancient Greek ὁ (ho, “the”), German der (“the”), English the.

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: ten

ten

1. this (nearby)

¹The feminine accusative singular form tą is proscribed, but overall much more common.

ten

1. filler word

   A no, ten... ― Ah, yeah...

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ten is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1196 times in scientific texts, 782 times in news, 1457 times in essays, 1080 times in fiction, and 1228 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 5743 times, making it the 10th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• ten in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ten in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “TEN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2 December 2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ten”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ten”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ten”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 42

Borrowed from French teint.

ten n (plural tenuri)

1. color of the face

Scots numbers ^(edit)

←  1	←  9	10	11  →
		1
Cardinal: ten     Ordinal: tent

Inherited from Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

ten

1. ten

• “ten, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “ten, num. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

• IPA^(key): [ten]

ten m

1. the; this; that

• to

• “ten”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈten/ [ˈt̪ẽn]

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• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: ten

ten

1. second-person singular imperative of tener

From English time.

ten

1. time
   • 1975, Mighty Botai, “Sranang Kong Fri”, in Onafhankelijkheid (Srefidensi) Suriname:

     Atleba ten no sa de moro ini Sranan / Den bakra, den ben hori wi na baka / Den de bow den kondre kon na fesi / Meki wi e pina

     The period of toiling will be no more in Suriname / The Dutch, they held us back / They built up their country successfully / Made us suffer

ten

1. romanization of 𒋼 (ten)

From Old Swedish ten, from Old Norse teinn (“sprout, twig, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *tainaz

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ten c

1. a thin metal rod
2. (spinning) the shaft of a spindle (in any material)

• telning

• slända (“spindle”)
• sländtrissa (“spindle whorl”)

• ten in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• ten in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

ten

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Tok Pisin numbers ^(edit)

		100
←  1	←  9	10	11  →	20  →
		1
Cardinal: ten

From English ten.

ten

1. ten

Used when counting; see also tenpela.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تن (ten), from Persian تن (tan).

• IPA^(key): /tɛn/

ten (definite accusative teni, plural tenler)

1. skin
2. body
3. (dialectal) vulva of a cow

• “ten”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982