tenesmo

From Latin tēnesmus, from Ancient Greek τεινεσμός (teinesmós), from τείνω (teínō).

tenesmo m (plural tenesmi)

1. (pathology) tenesmus

• mestone, semento, sementò

• Hyphenation: te‧nes‧mo

tenesmo m (plural tenesmos)

1. (pathology) tenesmus (painfully urgent need to urinate or defecate that results in little being passed)

• tenasmon (obsolete)

Borrowing from Medieval Latin tēnesmus, from Ancient Greek τεινεσμός (teinesmós, “vain endeavor to evacuate”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch, to pull tight”) +‎ -εσμός (-esmós, nominal suffix). First attested in the form tenasmon in 1450, while the form tenesmo appeared in the late 16th c., becoming the predominant spelling.

• IPA^(key): /teˈnesmo/ [t̪eˈnez.mo]
• Rhymes: -esmo
• Syllabification: te‧nes‧mo

tenesmo m (plural tenesmos)

1. (medicine) tenesmus

• “tenesmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “tenesmo”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN